MATLAB is a commercial scientific package... INSANELY expensive fot professional use, but actually quite reasonable if you use it fot your own stuff at home... my company pays for it on my work computer, I paid for a personal license on my home computer to try out modelling new ideas... it really is insanely powerful, and with AI assisting in making the code simple and efficient, you can easily write powerful programs.... but you do need to be careful to triple check them against problems you already know the answer to... AI coding assistance has improved orders of magnitude, but it still makes mistakes.

I was thinking, since I have so much RAM I could do a realistic simulation of Von Neumann machines and how long it would take to have them colonize every star in the galaxy... to play with the concept of the Fermi paradox.... such a program using ChatGPT would take MAYBE an hour to create, though testing it to make sure its rigorously correct would take longer....