I spent my whole masters degree (numerical modelling of the effects of beach dewatering in a micro-tidal environment) doing this type of stuff, and then my first two years out of uni doing the same thing (98 and 99) (1- and 2-D numerical modelling to allow the GIS overlay of the effects of various flood plain drainage systems to financial asses cost versus damage prevention).
Because of the DotCom boom, it was about three times more rewarding to do junk software like CRUD screens in ADO and DAO instead of the really complex, intellectually meaningful development. I still think there is a doubling of salary to do enterprise software over engineering software, and the economic drivers are hard to ignore long-term. Doing fun, interesting software with tools like Matlab just isn't as financially well rewarded, and hence tends to be the domain of the hobbyist and academic from what I've seen. Nick -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of silky Sent: Saturday, 31 July 2010 11:30 AM To: ozDotNet Subject: OT - Mathematical computing Does anyone do anything of this type? I'm currently playing with MATLAB, and it's pretty fun. There are some things that require a bit of getting used to, but it seems like it's the most used and programmable. We've got Maple at Uni as well, and I certainly prefer that for entering and manipulating equations. I haven't done much with Mathematica, and those are the only programs I'm familiar with. I'm under the impression that a component of the scientific community uses Python; but I suspect that's only because it's more accessible to them than other programming languages (and probably due to some existing math libraries which make things easier). Anyone have any thoughts on the matter? I believe MATLAB has some sort of interaction with Amazon EC2 for running distributed items, which seems very cool, but I'm yet to do anything anywhere near as interesting as requiring that. Interested to hear if anyone has done any work/investigation in this area. -- silky Every morning when I wake up, I experience an exquisite joy - the joy of being this signature.
