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Re:Gnuplotlib: Non-Painful Plotting for NumPy on Wednesday January 31, 2024 @10:30PM (#39212473)
I always find it easier to produce publication-quality figures using gnuplot (but not with its defaults settings, mind you) than with Matplotlib. Check out http://gnuplotting.org/

Also, it's hard to beat gnuplot's speed refreshing a live scatter plot with many thousands of points using the x11 terminal.

Re:Gnuplotlib: Non-Painful Plotting for NumPy on Wednesday January 31, 2024 @10:27PM (#39212455)
The command is equivalent to the more verbose:

  plot 'data.dat' using 1:3 with points pointtype 7 linecolor 3 title 'Interesting measurements'
Re:It's 2023, so of course I'm learning Common Lisp on Friday July 28, 2023 @12:44AM (#36903177)
Stop moving the goalposts: your answer to a commenter who stated that Common Lisp was faster than Python (a fact) was a list of packages, many of which are (1) not even written in Python and (2) some of them actually do have Common Lisp bindings.
Re:It's 2023, so of course I'm learning Common Lisp on Thursday July 27, 2023 @10:54AM (#36894525)
For the sake of anyone reading this thread who isn't in the know: many of these libraries are really written in C/C++ and have Python bindings.
Re:PhD Simulator on Wednesday July 05, 2023 @12:03PM (#36602366)
Too real.
Re:Byte Magazine: LISP (1979) on Friday August 05, 2022 @10:34PM (#32364284)
You might also be interested in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32363295
Re:CACM special issue on Lisp (1991) on Friday August 05, 2022 @07:49PM (#32363296)
Communications of the ACM, September 1991 (Vol. 34, No. 9)
The Apache HTTP Server and the GNU Scientific Library come to mind.
Re:The ultimate SMD marking codes database on Wednesday October 06, 2021 @07:02PM (#28779576)
One possible way could be extracting the product type marking codes / marking information from a large collection of data sheets.