Something New Every Day

A record of doing a new thing every day in 2011

Octave (286/365) Thursday October 13, 2011

Pressing on with the Stanford Machine Learning course, and this week’s exercise involved learning about a new bit of software for me - Octave.

It’s a really nice piece of software for doing numerical calculations, and I expect will be heavily used by the course as it has a nice way of doing matrix arithmetic. If only they’d had software like this when I was a lad…