I am a high school student with seven years of experience in Java and two months of ReactJS and Unity. With this in mind, do you think that it would be worth it to learn Python for Data Science and Machine Learning? I am thinking about these two topics as possible Majors in College.
Hi It really depends on what kind of problem you want to solve , because MATLAB is equally good , but from personal research and reading here and there Python is a way to go , take a look at Tensorflow : It was originally developed by researchers and engineers working on the Google Brain Team within Google's Machine Intelligence research organization for the purposes of conducting machine learning and deep neural networks research. Hope it helps
Yes, had the same question and started with node.js for server side development, for machine learning there are some packets. Now i see why python is so convient for machine learning, mix it with c++. For many tasks python and c++ will be excellent.
You should give it a try. Python's syntax is simple, meaning that picking up the basics isn't that difficult.
This makes it easy to start with machine learning sooner rather than later, which will help you know if you really want to pursue the field in depth.
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100% yes! Python is amazing.
Another option is Lua for use with the Torch (Facebook's machine learning library).
Both are great languages, but I think Lua has the upper hand on speed due to LuaJIT (Just In Time compilation), which is based on Lua 5.1 (3 main versions of Lua in the wild are 5.1, 5.2, and 5.3, but LuaJIT is stuck in 5.1).