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tush
tush
12:58
Hi everyone
I was wondering maybe you can share this information with me:
Where you work?
Hi everyone
I was wondering maybe you can share this information with me:
Where do you work?
I am asking this because all the (physics and engineering oriented) workplaces I have ever came across with use Python, R and Matlab to do their analysis. I have never encountered a work place that uses Wolfram.
So I am wondering, is Wolfram something you program with for a living?
Is Wolfram bounded to be used only in universities and such?

I hope that the answer is no, because I want use it extensively in the future, and whether I am going to be a Wolfram expert or not relies on the fact whether …
 
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gwr
gwr
14:57
Does anybody know, where this popup menu with suggestions is coming from in v13.2 on macOS and (since it is a real nuisance) how to turn it off?
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rhermans
rhermans
16:29
@tush I started using Mathematica during my PhD studies (Physics, USA), and continued during my PostDoc (Nanotech, UK) in both this places site licenses were readily available and there were enough colleagues that spoke the same language. Now I work in the industry, and I'm currently limited to free licenses like Wolfram Cloud and Wolfram Engine and it's hard to find colleagues that use Wolfram Language instead of Python and COMSOL.
I can not claim that my case is representative, probably you can not generalize. But such is my personal experience. Mathematica has advantages, but it is a proprietary software. Python has a strong place that Mathematica will never take.
I do not program for a living, for me it's a tool to analyse data, and make calculations and for fun 🤓 . I'm not an expert, just a user.
I do not exclusively program for a living, my main job is to be a scientist, for me Mathematica is one of many tools to analyse data, and make calculations and for fun 🤓 . I'm not an expert, just a user.
tush
tush
17:44
@rhermans Thanks for the information.
 
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user10478
user10478
19:17
Sorry for a basic question, but I have been trying to graph some data points for several hours. The following is just one attempt; I have been fiddling with the syntax of ListPlot, Plot, [], {}, [[1]], etc., and tried every combination I can imagine. Any idea how to write this properly?
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psimeson
psimeson
19:53
How to make a Cayley graph for SL(2,3) ? Mathematica seems to support only few group types: reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/CayleyGraph.html
psimeson
psimeson
20:19
Question posted here: mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/278682/…
Carl Lange
Carl Lange
@tush I freelance, but don't use Mathematica for any work-related stuff - the license is hard to sell to clients. I might sometimes prototype something in Mathematica and then actually write it in Python or whatever to deliver to the client. I wish I could use Mathematica in the workplace but I haven't yet found a client who's happy with the licensing arrangements.
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I find it tough sometimes because I find Mathematica 100x more efficient than any other programming environment I use, and then switching back to python or whatever for client work feels like running through treacle.
In any case pretty much all my clients are small tech-focused companies who have teams who don't know Mathematica so that compounds the issue. I dream of working for a research institute or similar where it doesn't really matter what tech I'm using.

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