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From: | Michael D. Godfrey |
Subject: | Re: octave on slashdot |
Date: | Sat, 28 Dec 2013 19:10:55 -0500 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.2.0 |
On 12/28/2013 06:31 PM, fgnievinski wrote:
Does this explain the use of Octave by Coursera for their machine learning course?my biased summary of the slashdot reader comments: the niche for octave lies in matlab compatibility, given the large pool of engineers trained in matlab at college. outside of that narrow niche, octave compares unfavorably to other open source alternatives, such as python and scilab, in terms of speed and graphical user-friendliness. -F.
Michael
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