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Are there any quality ML courses (of norvig or ng quality) that uses python or java. I would love to learn ML concepts, but I really don't have the cognitive b
by sandGorgon 11y ago
Are there any quality ML courses (of norvig or ng quality) that uses python or java.
I would love to learn ML concepts, but I really don't have the cognitive bandwidth to learn a new language, which I most likely will never use in my day job (Python, ruby,java).
When I last looked, most of the top quality courses use some variant of proprietary tools or MATLAB, but production code is in python or java (with R sometimes).
- GFK_of_xmaspast 11y agoLearning a new language is very easy compared to learning all sorts of other stuff, including ML.
- sandGorgon 11y agoI agree - the problem is that there are some problems at my work that I can probably solve by applying some concepts of ML. But I dont think I can do that through matlab. I have been having a bad day on HN, so before I get misconstrued - there is nothing wrong with matlab. I was just hoping a go-to-production language like Java or Python for learning ML.
- argonaut 11y agoIs there a reason you can't read data into MATLAB (by reading an exported csv/other format file, or querying a database)? That being said, you can do ML completely in Python.
- sandGorgon 11y ago1. I dont have matlab, and I dont want to buy it. 2. when you go into production (say.. predicting top customers for an ecommerce site), you are not going to run matlab on the server. yes - python/pandas/scikit is pretty popular for writing production ML code. The question really is - any good courses ? Most of the top courses I see are using some variant of Matlab to teach.
- argonaut 11y agoGood point. I don't think it's too much trouble to translate MATLAB to the equivalent numpy/scipy/ python library calls.