• Troy@lemmy.ca
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    3 years ago

    Somewhere in a backroom, there’s a hamster named Julia. In a hamster ball.

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        3 years ago

        Don’t forget the centipede crawling around in the sewer pipes named Fortran. We’ve all been trying to kill it for years and yet, somehow, it keeps going.

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            3 years ago

            Jokes aside, I encounter Fortran in the applied physics community still fairly often. And have never encountered M in a professional context.

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      3 years ago

      I loved Julia in my data science classes. Codes like python, runs like c. Can also use it with bash by piping values in

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    3 years ago

    I love R, we are best friends. Life is wonderful when basically every function is vectorized by default.

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    3 years ago

    I like and despise R… WHY DO I HAVE TO COPY THE TEXT FROM MY CONSOLE INTO A SCRIPT TO ACTUALLY SAVE IT AS AN .R FILE???

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    I considered looking at R once. As a data scientist and an experienced Python user, maybe I’ll see something useful. Then I learned that R uses <- for variable assignment and = for equality evaluation, and I stopped learning because I would make that mistake if I learned to switch back and forth for the rest of my life.