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You should also check out https://conda-forge.github.io/, which is building high quality, community curated conda packages for a lot of stuff that isn't available from the main Continuum channel.

For scientific work, I find it worth the effort to compile from source using Intel compilers + MKL (or a compiler + math library that can optimize well for your particular hardware platform).

aren't all of the default conda channel packages compiled with MKL now?

I'm not really commenting on the relative merits of the technology or who should use what. It's about the lack of admission that there is other stuff and other requirements

Hm, I would consider using Anaconda if it worked for Gtk libraries (GEGL etc) on all 3 platforms (yeah I know this is hard outside Anaconda too).