You got my upvote. I can't understand the point of view expressed in this article at all. I particularly can't understand the claim that the accessibility has

You got my upvote. I can't understand the point of view expressed in this article at all. I particularly can't understand the claim that the accessibility hasn't improved. Yesterday I implemented a couple of different machine learning algorithms on some test data using python and sklearn. Now, I'm just noob - but there is no way I could have that quickly implemented a machine learning algo on some data 10 years ago. It would have literally taken me months to do the equivalent thing rolling everything myself. And even then my code would have probably taken several days to run for any dataset of any reasonable size because I wouldn't have a clue how to build numpy's optimised data arrays etc... Plus all this code is just given away... for free... no questions asked. It's so unbelievably awesome it boggles my mind. So yeah - I don't get why this author is giving all that it's due. It really deserves a crap tonne of due. y'know?