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Re:Machine Learning for Developers by eranation on Friday October 09, 2015 @11:08AM (#10360517)
Our data scientists are learning Scala and Spark (MLLib) as a replacement for Python and R. So sure, maybe Python has long been the "best language for ML" but also one time in the not so far past "MySpace was the best social network"
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Re:Machine Learning for Developers by p1esk on Friday October 09, 2015 @01:21PM (#10361696)
What kind of tasks your data scientists are working on?
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Re:Machine Learning for Developers by eranation on Friday October 09, 2015 @09:13PM (#10364066)
Mostly anomaly detection.
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Re:Machine Learning for Developers by p1esk on Friday October 09, 2015 @10:26PM (#10364222)
Interesting. What are the reason for this transition from Python and R to Scala and Spark?
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