Re:MLHelper: Algorithms and utils for Machine Learning in Ja...
by jszymborski on Saturday November 18, 2017 @01:32PM
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There's a huge demand for explanatory material for ML, and running small-sized demos in the browser is a great tool for that purpose.
I don't know how many people are using JS to train particularly large models, or models they'd use in production, however.
Finally, I wouldn't be surprised if we see something like "ML tools for Brainfuck" sometime on HN, because everyone wants to learn ML and implementation is a good way to learn and everyone wants to write something new and "fun" (for various definitions of fun).
I code things in JS because I spend a lot of time with JS. So a quick CLI tool others would write in Go, I might do in JS just because it’s so familiar. But I also spend a lot of time in Java. I’d never choose JS over Java for something like this. I feel like the only reason you would ever do this in JavaScript is because you literally don’t know any other language.