After spending most of the last night trying to model and fit a bunch of data with scipy, my main bottleneck was my understanding; working out what I needed to do. Once that was done, everything could be implemented in a single call. I don't think that's a particularly bad bottleneck at all.
There was some good discussion about this last time this was posted, and also current discussion over on reddit.
The problem is that programmers like to program. Make the programming part trivial, and we start to fear that we aren't needed, and that perhaps we could be replaced with domain experts :-O
There was some good discussion about this last time this was posted, and also current discussion over on reddit.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=182676 http://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/a2xzj/the_embarrassi...