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I also saw that his new deep learning courses are in Python. He may have changed his mind about teaching in Octave for his traditional Machine Learning courses,
by shamino 8y ago
I also saw that his new deep learning courses are in Python. He may have changed his mind about teaching in Octave for his traditional Machine Learning courses, but I still learned a great deal and I feel like I have a strong intuition of how ML algorithms (and neural nets) work.
There is some truth to Octave having a faster turnaround than Python, if you're new to programming. I feel like with Deep Learning you really have to bite the bullet, but his courses are just fine with Octave/Matlab - with respect to getting an intuitive feel for the algorithms.
- shamino 8y agoI'm going to go out on a limb and say that it's probably for similar reasons that you chose PyTorch over Tensorflow :)
- jph00 8y agoYes I do think his ML course is still wonderful, as I said in the post :) However I don't think that Octave is better than Python for teaching or understanding machine learning concepts.
- shamino 8y agoI just don't think his courses deserve a knock, or that your course will be better because it uses Python. Both courses can be great :)