Orlando Perl Workshop aka Perl Oasis. If it's your first time at Perl Oasis. You have to talk.

2. Jan 08 08:40 * Now talking on #orlando
Jan 08 08:40 * Topic for #orlando is: http://orlando.pm |
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Jan 08 08:40 Topic for #orlando set by perigrin!~Perigrin@tamarou-
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Jan 08 08:40 * Bender1 gives channel operator status to gizmomathboy

12. Why Perl and Science?
● Matlab is expensive
● Why should FORTRAN get all the glory?
● We've been doing it for a long time (Feb '96)

13. Python
● Numpy 2005
● SciPy roots in 1999 modules, unified in 2001

15. GSL hooks
● Why is this important?

16. What GSL Does
● Complex Numbers
● Roots of Polynomials
● Special Functions
● Vectors and Matrices
● Permutations
● Sorting
● BLAS Support
● Linear Algebra
● Eigensystems
● Fast Fourier Transforms
● Quadrature
● Random Numbers
● Quasi-Random Sequences
● Random Distributions
● Statistics
● N-Tuples
●
Monte Carlo Integration
●
Simulated Annealing
● Differential Equations
●
Interpolation
● Numerical Differentiation
●
Chebyshev Approximation
●
Series Acceleration
● Discrete Hankel Transforms
●
Root-Finding
● Minimization
●
Least-Squares Fitting
●
Physical Constants
● IEEE Floating-Point
●
Discrete Wavelet Transforms
● Basis splines

17. Parallel
● Parallel::Loops
● Parallel::Simple::Dynamic
● Parallel::ForkManager
● PDL::Parallel::threads

18. People/Community
● Joel Berger
● David Mertens
● I guess me, too.

19. App::Prima
● GUI REPL for PDL
● Has plotting/drawing extensions

20. http://perl4science.github.com/

21. https://groups.google.com/forum/#!
forum/the-quantified-onion

22. Plotting
● Matlab/matplotlib
● PDL::Graphics::Gnuplot
● PDL::Graphics::Prima

23. Does it matter?

24. Development time vs Computation

25. Calling out to C easier than Matlab?

26. Data munging and extraction

27. Questions?