Re:Matlab is oversold as a general-purpose language
by PeterisP on Saturday July 27, 2013 @10:01AM
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In academia I'd say most programs are run (when finished) 2-3 times - once on a smallish testset when you decide that this version is correct, second time on the full data that you have to produce results for the paper (and you don't care how long it runs as long as it finishes before the submission date); and maybe a third time if you get a larger/better dataset somehow.
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Re:Matlab is oversold as a general-purpose language
by ghsalazar on Saturday July 27, 2013 @10:24AM
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It's sad, but you're right. In my field, I've found that there is little interest in experiment design when doing data analysis; you'd be asked to perform an analysis on eight or ten data sets, only because the people think that is exhaustive.