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[–] [email protected] 33 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I like to spice up things with gnuplot every now and then.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I have relied on Gnuplot ASCII output over SSH to get me through hard times

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 months ago (2 children)

My brother in christ you can transfer files over ssh

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 months ago

Ain't nobody got time for that.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago

Lol I am aware. I just needed a way to quickly scatterplot stuff for intuition. The ASCII output was perfect and I didn't waste 30 seconds futzing with scp each time I needed to visualize another slice of data.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

That's hardcore.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Thank god nobody made u use matlab

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

✅figures ❌RAM

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

My MATLAB colleagues were jealous of my Matplotlib because the company didn't purchase the plotting add-on...

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago

I first used Matplotlib 10 years ago. It was unintuitive and very slowly redrawing the whole plot each time you tried to zoom.

I'm using it right now, and I'm happy to report that it kept to it's time-honored tradition - zoom is still piss-slow even on my fancy new PC with 12 cores.

Maybe in the next 20 years, matplotlib devs will discover wonders of tile cache.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Plotly ❤️❤️

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

i have a disgusting amount of the plotly api memorized

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

you know you are addicted when you feel compelled to make a line plot from four data points

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

If they define a function that's fair. I'm of the firm belief that data are points and models/functions are lines.