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Looking for Work After 25 Years of Octave

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Re: Looking for Work After 25 Years of Octave

#11

It seems that octave has been overtaken (in mindshare) by python/numpy. Why is that the case?

Python is general-purpose and more people use it. There are many reasons, but the preferential attachment model is sufficient to explain your observations, in this comparison.

Re: Looking for Work After 25 Years of Octave

#14

It seems that octave has been overtaken (in mindshare) by python/numpy. Why is that the case?

The short answer is "scikit-learn".

Can you please give the longer answer? I don't understand what you mean. What does scikit-learn have that octave doesn't? (Asking out of ignorance)

Re: Looking for Work After 25 Years of Octave

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If you think GNU Octave has made a difference in your life or other's, please take a moment to continue funding his efforts. http://jweaton.org/?page_id=48

you can also donate via the Free software foundation, I'm not sure what the author prefers, but the FSF donation can most likely be matched 100% if your company participates in a matching program. Hopefully, adding a "for 'GNU Octave' project" note should be enough.

There's a specific donation page for Octave.

https://my.fsf.org/donate/working-together/octave

Using the regular donation page with a note will just complicate the lives of the FSF staff.

Re: Looking for Work After 25 Years of Octave

#17
This is not a scalable model of software funding. People may send you money today, because its on their minds, but bills will have to be paid again next month, and next year. Please get yourself, a Patreon account, or something similar.

Meanwhile, I'm sure MathWorks is looking for people with exactly your domain knowledge[0].

https://www.mathworks.com/company/jobs/opportunities/?s_tid=...

Re: Looking for Work After 25 Years of Octave

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For those of us not in the know, GNU Octave is, according to Wikipedia, "software featuring a high-level programming language, primarily intended for numerical computations."

More specifically, it's designed to support as much as possible of MATLAB's syntax to provide an open-source alternative to MATLAB.

Which it failed to do last time I checked.

Sadly.

Re: Looking for Work After 25 Years of Octave

#20

This is not a scalable model of software funding. People may send you money today, because its on their minds, but bills will have to be paid again next month, and next year. Please get yourself, a Patreon account, or something similar. Meanwhile, I'm sure MathWorks is looking for people with exactly your domain knowledge[0]. https://www.mathworks.com/company/jobs/opportunities/?s_tid=...

Working there, though, might preclude further work on Octave.
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