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🧠💻 A team from the Mind, Brain and Behavior Research Center (CIMCYC, cimcyc.bsky.social) published a #programming guide aimed at students in #psychology and #cognitive #neuroscience. This evolving set of #tutorials offers a curated collection of conceptual reflections, practical examples, and methodological recommendations. The material is available in #Python, #RStats, and #MATLAB.

🌍 wobc.github.io/programming_boo
#CognitiveScience #OpenScience

#MATLAB in Teilen immer noch down: Seit über einer Woche hat die Programmiersprache/Berechnungsumgebung nun schon mit einem #Ransomware-Vorfall zu kämpfen - was ziemlich übel ist, weil nicht nur die Online-Anwendungen, sondern auch interne Mitarbeitersysteme betroffen waren. Und wenn man darüber nachdenkt, dass weltweit ca. 6.500 Unis das Tool nutzen, kann man sich die Auswirkungen auf die Forschung durchaus vorstellen.

status.mathworks.com/ #cybersecurity #cybercrime #mathworks

#MathWorks server issues have persisted for days, affecting licensing and downloads. This highlights how dependent many academic workflows are on proprietary systems.

Consider alternatives that remain available regardless of vendor status:

🔹 Julia – built for numerical computing
🔹 Python – widely used, with strong scientific libraries

Both are open-source and resilient.

@mathworks - how is *downloads* not the first thing you restored? 🤬

All the other stuff is gravy. If you have downloads, people can install their own license servers and run matlab. How is this not the first thing fixed?

#matlab

ps. Does anyone have a link to @mathworks so we can actually talk to them?

The MathWorks outage is the perfect time to look at GNU Octave! No license servers to deal with for FLOSS! octave.org/

Even if it's not helpful right now during the outage, consider it for future work to avoid stoppage the next time the MathWorks hostage server goes down.

theregister.com/2025/05/27/mat

octave.orgGNU OctaveGNU Octave is a programming language for scientific computing.
#octave#floss#gnu
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@adredish I am also currently using #Matlab for my analyses.. I used to prefer #Python but last time I tried to install it to get some spike sorting code to run I had to admit that all the problems with incompatible versions made it almost not worth it.

The only other alternative I've seen people use would be R, and these people usually claim that it can do anything that Python (or Matlab) does, but in reality I've never seen them use it for anything else than plot graphs and do stats. So I don't know if it can really be a replacement.

I also tried Octave a long time ago, it was not as good as Matlab but maybe it has improved now? I don't know how they deal with updates and toolboxes..

So I'm also interested to see what alternatives do people use for #Neuroscience analyses!

I'm surprised to hear they're still teaching MATLAB to civil engineering students in college. I learned MATLAB in college the late 2000s, but it was proprietary and expensive so I never used it.

STEM students should definitely be learning Python instead of MATLAB. It can do anything MATLAB can do, and is free and accessible.

Any #octave or #matlab users here? I'm generating a plot and it's coming out with whitespace before the Y axis and after the end of the plot, which is rather annoying. Is there a parameter to either stretch the plot to fill the frame or to shrink the frame to the dimensions of the plot?

For those who say that it's okay for a software tool to use all CPU cores by default:

Here's a stalled shared compute server with 48 cores. The java, python3.12 and MATLAB processes run at 4800%, meaning they looked at the number of physical cores available on this machine and decide it's a good idea to hijack them all for their own purposes 🤷

Users are rarely aware - advanced ones might, but they would also know how to override the default