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It's a turing complete language. Why is it surprising or note-worthy that you can implement ML algorithms in it?
by johnleppings 14y ago
It's a turing complete language. Why is it surprising or note-worthy that you can implement ML algorithms in it?
- bkanber 14y agoBecause up until relatively recently, JS was slow and crippled. The public image of JS is that its only use is Ajax and making popups. It's only recently being recognized as a "real language". Surprising and note-worthy that you can do ML in JS? No. But novel? Yes.
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- Wilya 14y agoThat you can implement them isn't impressive. But most ML algorithms ("applying a pretrained neural network" being a notable exception to that) are compute-intensive, so in a language that doesn't have access to Lapack/Blas/etc, performance will be terrible.