SciRuby

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Post by jergason » Tue, Nov 01, 2011, 2:50 AM UTC

SciRuby
sciruby.com

Re: SciRuby

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Post by jcarden » Tue, Nov 01, 2011, 3:09 AM UTC

Wow. This is very much needed. That being said, to what end are they going for ?

Re: SciRuby

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Post by tel » Tue, Nov 01, 2011, 3:34 AM UTC

I'm really glad they're implementing Protovis instead of trying to copy Matlab's plotting facilities like Matplotlib. Matlab plotting is pretty terrible.

Re: SciRuby

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Post by pdenya » Tue, Nov 01, 2011, 3:38 AM UTC

jcarden wrote: post #2

Wow. This is very much needed. That being said, to what end are they going for ?

I think this was posted in response to this article (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3179370) rather than because of some recent update.

Re: SciRuby

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Post by djacobs » Tue, Nov 01, 2011, 3:39 AM UTC

I'm glad to see this project is coming back.

I'm in the middle of writing a Stats library for Ruby[0]. Maybe we can join forces?

[0] https://github.com/davejacobs/stats

Re: SciRuby

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Post by jergason » Tue, Nov 01, 2011, 3:39 AM UTC

pdenya wrote: post #4

jcarden wrote: post #2

Wow. This is very much needed. That being said, to what end are they going for ?

I think this was posted in response to this article ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3179370 ) rather than because of some recent update.

That is correct. I am somewhat connected to a few guys working on this, and I saw the article and thought I would share.

Re: SciRuby

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Post by skadamat » Tue, Nov 01, 2011, 3:44 AM UTC

pdenya wrote: post #4

jcarden wrote: post #2

Wow. This is very much needed. That being said, to what end are they going for ?

I think this was posted in response to this article ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3179370 ) rather than because of some recent update.

I WAS just gonna ping that guy and let him know about it haha

Re: SciRuby

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Post by epistasis » Tue, Nov 01, 2011, 3:56 AM UTC

I hope they don't set up SciPy as the project to emulate and improve upon. Deep knowledge of R, Fortran, and Matlab would better inform this project of what scientists need.

SciPy is great, but it's clearly best for programmers that have a slight scientific bent and can't stomach learning the existing scientific tools (which are admittedly a bit difficult to combine with modern software engineering). There are some great ideas in SciPy, but a broader set of influences is essential to making a great scientific toolkit.

Re: SciRuby

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Nov 01, 2011, 4:07 AM UTC

epistasis wrote: post #8

I hope they don't set up SciPy as the project to emulate and improve upon. Deep knowledge of R, Fortran, and Matlab would better inform this project of what scientists need. SciPy is great, but it's clearly best for programmers that have a slight scientific bent and can't stomach learning the existing scientific tools (which are admittedly a bit difficult to combine with modern software engineering). There are some g…

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Re: SciRuby

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Post by jergason » Tue, Nov 01, 2011, 4:28 AM UTC

epistasis wrote: post #8

I hope they don't set up SciPy as the project to emulate and improve upon. Deep knowledge of R, Fortran, and Matlab would better inform this project of what scientists need. SciPy is great, but it's clearly best for programmers that have a slight scientific bent and can't stomach learning the existing scientific tools (which are admittedly a bit difficult to combine with modern software engineering). There are some g…

Plenty of real science happens in SciPy. http://scholar.google.com/scholar?cites=2086009121748039507&... is the list of papers on Google Scholar that cite the SciPy website. Biology, machine learning, physics, and more.