Re: [time-nuts] matlab, python, etc.

2013-01-10 Thread Peter Monta
Let me put in a recommendation for python / scipy / numpy / matplotlib as a replacement for Matlab or octave. I used Matlab as a student and octave since, and they do their job well, but the python tools have the advantage of a better, more modular, less idiosyncratic language. The scipy project,

Re: [time-nuts] matlab, python, etc.

2013-01-07 Thread Bob Camp
on Sent: Monday, January 07, 2013 12:44 PM To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement Subject: Re: [time-nuts] matlab, python, etc. I think you have it backwards. The purpose of Matlab and things like it is NOT to save computer time. It is to have enginerring man hours. For example a

Re: [time-nuts] matlab, python, etc.

2013-01-07 Thread Chris Albertson
I think you have it backwards. The purpose of Matlab and things like it is NOT to save computer time. It is to have enginerring man hours. For example a problem can be coded in two hours in Matlib that would take me a week to code in C. But then when you run the software the C coded solution

Re: [time-nuts] matlab, python, etc.

2013-01-07 Thread Bob Camp
Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement Subject: [time-nuts] matlab, python, etc. On 1/7/13 4:30 AM, Bob Camp wrote:> HI > > Well if you are getting it done in seconds on Matlab, then you likely don't need Matlab very badly. Around here a typical Matlab setup is i

Re: [time-nuts] matlab, python, etc.

2013-01-07 Thread Thomas S. Knutsen
An semester or two with linear algebra is an good start, but the homepage of matlab have an excelent learning section. No experience with Octave yet. MIT OCW (open courseware) have lectures on linear algebra, in addition to most of the other courses offered at MIT. BR. Thomas. 2013/1/7 Attila

Re: [time-nuts] matlab, python, etc.

2013-01-07 Thread Chuck Harris
The tutorials that come as part of the octave documentation package are quite good. -Chuck Harris Attila Kinali wrote: On Mon, 07 Jan 2013 06:40:12 -0800 Jim Lux wrote: There's a whole lot of stuff that time-nuts do in terms of data analysis that is pretty quick and easy in Matlab (or Octave

Re: [time-nuts] matlab, python, etc.

2013-01-07 Thread Attila Kinali
On Mon, 07 Jan 2013 06:40:12 -0800 Jim Lux wrote: > There's a whole lot of stuff that time-nuts do in terms of data analysis > that is pretty quick and easy in Matlab (or Octave), especially for > "fooling around". I'm not wild about Matlab's data acquisition > capabilities, but then, I'm les

[time-nuts] matlab, python, etc.

2013-01-07 Thread Jim Lux
On 1/7/13 4:30 AM, Bob Camp wrote:> HI > > Well if you are getting it done in seconds on Matlab, then you likely don't need Matlab very badly. Around here a typical Matlab setup is indeed CPU bound for a *lot* longer than that during a normal work day. Two or three hours a day is not at all unu