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I thought Python was the language of choice for ML. Still, having one language that's good at all of these does sound attractive. The excessive boilerplate is
by mcv 4y ago
I thought Python was the language of choice for ML.
Still, having one language that's good at all of these does sound attractive. The excessive boilerplate is annoying, though.
- PaulHoule 4y agoI wrote this thing using Python years ago https://ontology2.com/essays/ClassifyingHackerNewsArticles/ https://ontology2.com/essays/ClassifyingHackerNewsArticles/ I am thinking of firming it up to make something general for long-term use against RSS feeds. I have a blast writing websockets-based applications w/ asyncio in Python for my own personal use but I'd be loathe to put one of those where they get used heavily. On the other hand I have a lot of faith in the ability of Java-based servers that take heavy hits because I've done it for years. That logistic regression classifier would be easy to port to Java but if I used Python it would be easy to add new algorithms, particularly I want to add a dimension reducer (papers I read suggest it would cut the error rate in half) and a clustering engine, with scikit-learn I get a good choice of high-performance and tested algos. On the other hand, I find it easy to write state-machine code, parsers and such in Java that chew efficiently through large volumes of text.