4 ms·
Take a functional programming class. Martin Odersky on Coursera now has a while track. It's Scale. If that matters. Functional programming is the blood-brain ba
by nborwankar 10y ago
Take a functional programming class. Martin Odersky on Coursera now has a while track. It's Scale. If that matters. Functional programming is the blood-brain barrier between programming and math with lots of activity bringing the two closer. It may not be directly useful in Machine Learning type of math, but it's a strong foundation for parallel programming and multi-core programming due to the statelessness of pure functions. Good luck!
- rotcev 10y agoFrom personal experience, a functional programming style helps one to reason with the math used in artificial intelligence. This might be why lisp is considered one of the original AI languages. The power of being able to express the networks as purely lists of numbers is amazing in my opinion. Correct me if I'm wrong but I actually think the reason LISP was created was for AI.