> - machine learning I know Dan King did a bit with machine learning in Racket a while ago, but I have no clue what state its in:
https://github.com/danking/racket-ml On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 10:35 AM, Konrad Hinsen <[email protected]>wrote: > Stephen Chang writes: > > > > That said, it's interesting to look at why Python became such a > > > popular language in science. > > > > Coincidentally, I just read this article: > > > http://www.talyarkoni.org/blog/2013/11/18/the-homogenization-of-scientific-computing-or-why-python-is-steadily-eating-other-languages-lunch/ > > > > Not sure if this is your experience, but from the article and > > comments, the summary seems to be that python is not great for any > > one task but "wins" because it enables you to do a bunch of tasks > > in the same language. > > That's an important aspect today, but one that appeared only after > Python became popular in many domains of computational science. Today > there is a Python library for just about every domain of computational > science, so yes, Python lets you do nearly everything. > > > Interestingly, it seems that Racket can do everything in the > > article's list as well. > > I have doubts about some points on that list: > > - neuroimaging data analysis > - statistical analysis > - machine learning > > If there are Racket libraries for any of those, I'd like to hear about > them. There is some statistical stuff in the math library, but a > modern data scientist needs a lot more than that. Plus libraries to > read and write common data formats, which are missing from that > article's list, probably because the author took them for granted. > > > I see Racket's strength for scientific computing in a very different > aspect: the possibility to define languages tailor-made for expressing > computational models in some application domain. Scientists generally > don't want to "write programs", and when they do, the results are > often not pretty. I'd like to have scientists do science and > programmers write programs. Racket could become the meeting point for > the two professions. > > Konrad. > > ____________________ > Racket Users list: > http://lists.racket-lang.org/users >
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