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Re:The Most Popular Language for Machine Learning by throw20161123 on Thursday December 22, 2016 @02:31PM (#13239655)
I'm guessing Python for research and prototyping with C++ for production-izing and scaling.
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Re:The Most Popular Language for Machine Learning by gtaylor on Thursday December 22, 2016 @02:46PM (#13239779)
Some of these Python libs call out to C for heavy lifting, which can be very performant.
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Re:The Most Popular Language for Machine Learning by fooker on Thursday December 22, 2016 @08:38PM (#13242099)
You lose quite a bit of optimization opportunities along the FFI boundaries.
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