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Learning a new language is very easy compared to learning all sorts of other stuff, including ML.
by GFK_of_xmaspast 11y ago
Learning 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.