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In your opinion is it important for ML engineers to know C?
by natsucks 2y ago
In your opinion is it important for ML engineers to know C?
- brcmthrowaway 2y ago0% chance
- esafak 2y agoYou'd have to be deep into ML Infrastructure to use C, probably via CUDA. No-one who develops or uses ML models touches C or even C++. tinygrad and llama.cpp are exceptions.
- adeptima 2y agoSpend one year to study multiple languages - bash, C, C++, Go, Python ... and even Mojo or Rust. 10-20 hours a week. Being able to read top programming languages is the best investment I ever made. You will become fearless and can see the matrix ;)
- mode80 2y agoI did this and wrote about my experience: https://mode80.github.io/7-langs-in-12-months.html https://mode80.github.io/7-langs-in-12-months.html I don't regret it. But if ML is your main goal, Python is where you will end up because it's where the libraries are.
- natsucks 2y agointeresting! did you consider Go?
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