eupolicy.social is one of the many independent Mastodon servers you can use to participate in the fediverse.
This Mastodon server is a friendly and respectful discussion space for people working in areas related to EU policy. When you request to create an account, please tell us something about you.

Server stats:

228
active users

#octave

0 posts0 participants0 posts today
Europe Says<p><a href="https://www.europesays.com/2124259/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">europesays.com/2124259/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> See the Pitch Deck Octave Used to Raise a $5.5 Million Seed Round <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/bonfire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bonfire</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/business" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>business</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/CEO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CEO</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/cofounder" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cofounder</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/company" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>company</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/DeepSeek" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DeepSeek</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/engineer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>engineer</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Entrepreneurship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Entrepreneurship</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/LinkedinAlumnusFund" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LinkedinAlumnusFund</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/octave" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>octave</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/SaleTeam" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SaleTeam</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/SaleTool" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SaleTool</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/SeedRound" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SeedRound</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Startup" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Startup</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/UnusualVentures" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UnusualVentures</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/ZachVidibor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ZachVidibor</span></a></p>
UK<p><a href="https://www.europesays.com/uk/147082/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">europesays.com/uk/147082/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> See the Pitch Deck Octave Used to Raise a $5.5 Million Seed Round <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/bonfire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bonfire</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Business" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Business</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/CEO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CEO</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/cofounder" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cofounder</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/company" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>company</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/DeepSeek" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DeepSeek</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/engineer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>engineer</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Entrepreneurship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Entrepreneurship</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/LinkedinAlumnusFund" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LinkedinAlumnusFund</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/octave" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>octave</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/SaleTeam" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SaleTeam</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/SaleTool" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SaleTool</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/SeedRound" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SeedRound</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/startup" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>startup</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/UK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UK</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/UnitedKingdom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UnitedKingdom</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/UnusualVentures" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UnusualVentures</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/ZachVidibor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ZachVidibor</span></a></p>
Jason Bowen 🇺🇦<p>The MathWorks outage is the perfect time to look at GNU Octave! No license servers to deal with for FLOSS! <a href="https://octave.org/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">octave.org/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>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. </p><p><a href="https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/27/mathworks_ransomware_attack_leaves_ondeadline/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theregister.com/2025/05/27/mat</span><span class="invisible">hworks_ransomware_attack_leaves_ondeadline/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mast.hpc.social/tags/octave" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>octave</span></a> <a href="https://mast.hpc.social/tags/floss" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>floss</span></a> <a href="https://mast.hpc.social/tags/gnu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gnu</span></a> <a href="https://mast.hpc.social/tags/proprietarysoftwaresucks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>proprietarysoftwaresucks</span></a> <a href="https://mast.hpc.social/tags/mathworks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mathworks</span></a> <a href="https://mast.hpc.social/tags/matlab" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>matlab</span></a></p>
LabPlot<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://feddit.nl/u/JustEnoughDucks" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>JustEnoughDucks</span></a></span> </p><p>Some benefits of <a href="https://floss.social/tags/LabPlot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LabPlot</span></a>:</p><p>👉 an interactive environment with a graphical user interface,<br>👉 ease of use for non-programmers,<br>👉 built-in tools for data analysis, statistics, regression, and curve fitting,<br>👉 platform integration that may offer a better experience than running Python scripts,<br>👉 possibility to run <a href="https://floss.social/tags/Python" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Python</span></a>, <a href="https://floss.social/tags/Maxima" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Maxima</span></a>, <a href="https://floss.social/tags/R" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>R</span></a>, <a href="https://floss.social/tags/Octave" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Octave</span></a> and other languages inside LabPlot's computational notebooks.</p><p>Take a look at LabPlot's features: </p><p>➡️ <a href="https://labplot.org/features" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">labplot.org/features</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://floss.social/tags/OpenSource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenSource</span></a></p>
RDN<p>Apportioned voting is a new voting system that proportionally apportions each vote among each candidate to which the voter has assigned a non-negative preference value. It is similar to proportional ranked-choice voting, but proportional vote totals are computed in a single step.</p><p>The paper includes <a href="https://floss.social/tags/Octave" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Octave</span></a> (<a href="https://floss.social/tags/FOSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FOSS</span></a>) scripts for calculating the results of apportioned voting.</p><p><a href="https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0317580" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">journals.plos.org/plosone/arti</span><span class="invisible">cle?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0317580</span></a></p><p><a href="https://floss.social/tags/Voting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Voting</span></a> <a href="https://floss.social/tags/Politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Politics</span></a></p>
Bytes Europe<p>Behavioral Health Innovation Beyond Technology <a href="https://www.byteseu.com/766036/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">byteseu.com/766036/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Amae" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Amae</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Octave" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Octave</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Talkiatry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Talkiatry</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Technology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Technology</span></a></p>
Peter Vennemann<p>The interactive calculation sheet for <a href="https://nrw.social/tags/engineering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>engineering</span></a>, based on <a href="https://nrw.social/tags/emacs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>emacs</span></a>, <a href="https://nrw.social/tags/orgmode" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>orgmode</span></a>, <a href="https://nrw.social/tags/texlatex" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>texlatex</span></a> and <a href="https://nrw.social/tags/sympy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sympy</span></a> is available in English [1], although the blog article is in German [2]. The template is also in English [3].</p><p><a href="https://nrw.social/tags/Orgmode" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Orgmode</span></a> is so impressive, you could use <a href="https://nrw.social/tags/maxima" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>maxima</span></a>, <a href="https://nrw.social/tags/octave" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>octave</span></a>, <a href="https://nrw.social/tags/gnuplot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gnuplot</span></a>, <a href="https://nrw.social/tags/graphviz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>graphviz</span></a> and almost 40 other languages with all their libraries right out of the box [4].</p><p>Have fun!</p><p>[1] <a href="https://vennemann-online.de/flossblog/downloads/eng.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">vennemann-online.de/flossblog/</span><span class="invisible">downloads/eng.pdf</span></a><br>[2] <a href="https://vennemann-online.de/flossblog/post20250208_pencilandpaper.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">vennemann-online.de/flossblog/</span><span class="invisible">post20250208_pencilandpaper.html</span></a><br>[3] <a href="https://vennemann-online.de/flossblog/downloads/org_eng.zip" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">vennemann-online.de/flossblog/</span><span class="invisible">downloads/org_eng.zip</span></a><br>[4] <a href="https://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/babel/languages/index.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/b</span><span class="invisible">abel/languages/index.html</span></a></p>
Chuck<p>Any <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/octave" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>octave</span></a> or <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/matlab" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>matlab</span></a> 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?</p>
LabPlot<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://discuss.tchncs.de/u/silmaril" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>silmaril</span></a></span> </p><p>Have you seen our video tutorial on how to use Computational Notebooks in <a href="https://floss.social/tags/LabPlot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LabPlot</span></a>? We used <a href="https://floss.social/tags/R" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>R</span></a> as a model case but it applies to all available computational engines (<a href="https://floss.social/tags/Python" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Python</span></a>, <a href="https://floss.social/tags/Julia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Julia</span></a>, <a href="https://floss.social/tags/Maxima" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Maxima</span></a>, <a href="https://floss.social/tags/Octave" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Octave</span></a> and many others).</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lDQStVDevw" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=8lDQStVDev</span><span class="invisible">w</span></a></p>
LabPlot<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://discuss.tchncs.de/u/silmaril" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>silmaril</span></a></span> </p><p>"CAS" generally stands for a "Computer Algebra System". It encompasses statistical packages and programming languages like <a href="https://floss.social/tags/Maxima" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Maxima</span></a>, <a href="https://floss.social/tags/Octave" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Octave</span></a>, <a href="https://floss.social/tags/R" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>R</span></a>, <a href="https://floss.social/tags/Scilab" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Scilab</span></a>, <a href="https://floss.social/tags/Sage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Sage</span></a>, <a href="https://floss.social/tags/KAlgebra" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KAlgebra</span></a>, <a href="https://floss.social/tags/Qalculate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Qalculate</span></a>!, <a href="https://floss.social/tags/Python" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Python</span></a>, <a href="https://floss.social/tags/Julia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Julia</span></a>, <a href="https://floss.social/tags/Lua" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Lua</span></a>. You can use them all concurrently in multiple <a href="https://floss.social/tags/LabPlot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LabPlot</span></a>'s notebooks. </p><p>Please, see the attached screenshot. In this case, Python 3.12.3 is available in LabPlot on a Ubuntu machine.</p>
Willy Wenig<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://infosec.exchange/@nathans" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>nathans</span></a></span> Would love to see a proposal related to programming languages, e.g., <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Fortran" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fortran</span></a> = <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/debian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>debian</span></a> , <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/c" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>c</span></a> = <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/arch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>arch</span></a>, but <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/c" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>c</span></a>++, <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/python" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>python</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/matlab" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>matlab</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/octave" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>octave</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/java" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>java</span></a>, ... ?</p>