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<br><div><div>On Mar 1, 2008, at 8:32 PM, Doug Williams wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">My goal for this year is to extend the science collection and the new plot package I am working on (and to a lesser extent the simulation and inference collections) into something I am calling schemelab.� Basically, it would provide (as I said in the previous post) something similar to Python's numpy, scipy, and matplotlib for analysis, along with a simulation capability - I also do a fair amount of agent-based simulation in PLT Scheme.</blockquote><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div>Can you describe an example of your agent-based simulation?</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>rac</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><br> <br>Any ideas, etc would be welcome.� One thing I don't currently have in the science collection - and which is critical to the basic structure - is a good matrix representation/manipulation module.� I've implemented some for specific analyses I am doing, but they are very inefficient and not nearly as convenient as what numpy provides for Python.� If anyone can point me to some good implementations, or provide some ideas, it would be appreciated.<br> <br>Doug<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Mar 1, 2008 at 8:16 PM, Richard Cleis <<a href="mailto:rcleis@mac.com">rcleis@mac.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div style=""><div><div><div><div class="Ih2E3d"><div>On Mar 1, 2008, at 7:53 PM, Doug Williams wrote:</div><br><blockquote type="cite">The Python user's in this case went to it because it was an open-source, free (as in beer) alternative to Matlab.� With scipy, numpy, matplotlib, etc they put together a reasonable analysis package in Python.� But, they don't tend to be fanatics about the language/tools as our Matlab users are.</blockquote> <div><br></div></div><div>My situation is: almost everyone uses Matlab, and they think that anything else is a tool of fanatics :)<div><br></div></div><div class="Ih2E3d"><blockquote type="cite">� [And, tje Matlab users may have a point.� Matlab is a very good tool for doing engineering analysis.� Although it is a bit expensive, per seat, for small organizations and projects to justify sometimes.] � I am trying to get them a similar level of capability in PLT Scheme, e.g. with the science collection and a new plot collection, as they have with Python.</blockquote> <div><br></div></div><div>I haven't had time to implement your collections, but I am sure that they could be useful for some of the operational tools that DrScheme hosts here; analysis tools can be useful for synthesis, too.</div> <div><br></div><div>rac</div><div class="Ih2E3d"><br><blockquote type="cite"><br> <br>Doug<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Mar 1, 2008 at 7:45 PM, Richard Cleis <<a href="mailto:rcleis@mac.com" target="_blank">rcleis@mac.com</a>> wrote:<br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <br> On Mar 1, 2008, at 8:12 AM, Doug Williams wrote:<br> <br> > ...[I'll probably never win over the hardcore Matlab users, but the<br> <div>> Python users are a different story.]<br> <br> </div>How/Why are the Pysters different?<br> <br> rac<br> <br> </blockquote></div><br></blockquote></div></div><br></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">_________________________________________________</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-converted-space">� </span>For list-related administrative tasks:</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-converted-space">� </span><a href="http://list.cs.brown.edu/mailman/listinfo/plt-scheme">http://list.cs.brown.edu/mailman/listinfo/plt-scheme</a></div> </blockquote></div><br></body></html>