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		nagrom on July 20, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: In a First, an Entire Organism Is Simulated by Sof... I'm confused. In what way is Python not there? If one specifies, e.g. Python 2.7, what do you consider to be the short-comings? I'd also like to know how you think numpy/scipy are short compared to Matlab. I've not run into their limitations yet.

lazyjeff on July 21, 2012 [–]

I think the main thing is libraries. I was looking for graphical model software that supported DBNs once, and could only find Matlab ones. There was a python wrapper for one of the Matlab libraries but was not widely supported.

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