Stupid take. ML has been widely used for decades. We used to call it “statistics.” The only reason people suddenly think ML went from 0 to 60 is because some

Stupid take. ML has been widely used for decades. We used to call it “statistics.” The only reason people suddenly think ML went from 0 to 60 is because some grad students hacked a GPU and made it run a neural net in 2012. Python is of secondary importance to the history of ML compared to CUDA.