Re: matlab & simulink

[Nick Collier]

Yeah, this doesn't surprise me. He kept dismissing the speed issue when
we brought it up, primarily by insisting that the amount of time you
save in actually learning to write and then writing simulations in
Mathematica makes up for the speed problems. I guess his response (which
I don't think I agree with) would be "what's thirty hours when its taken
you a week or so to learn to write simulations with Mathematica and a
few hours to write one vs. months and weeks for Swarm." Again, I don't
think I agree with this, but I do think he has a point about ease of
use. At U. of C. we were thinking about Mathematica as a prototyping
language.

Nick

Paul Johnson wrote:
> 
> Nick Collier wrote:
> >
> > You can use Mathematica however. During a simulation conference here at
> > the University of Chicago a few months ago, Richard Gaylord gave a
> > tutorial on writing agent based simulations in Mathematica. He's got
> > several books out on writing simulations with Mathematica, only one of
> > which I've seen:
> >
> > Simulating Society: A Mathematica Toolkit for Modeling Socioeconomic
> > Behavior
> >                      by Richard J. Gaylord, Lou D'Andria, Louis J.
> > Dandria
> >
> > Nick
> >
> I have a funny story about this.  Gaylord gave a presentation at the
> NECSI 1st international complex systems meetings in New Hampshire. He
> talked about Mathematica and his book.  Then someone in the audience
> raised a hand and said "And you do this with Mathematica?" Gaylord said
> "Yes".  The questioner said "But that's really slow" and Gaylord said
> "So run it over night." The other guy said something like "Oh, what work
> do you do in the morning and afternoon?"
> 
> I wrote a program in Mathematica and it took about 30 hours to run.  I
> wrote it in C and it took 38 minutes.
> 
> --
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