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Lex Fridman Podcast

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Using Postgres for Machine Learning

Back to that moment, it was objective C. And then we were Python based, which is just like, this is before Python was really cool. We used a framework called Django still exists and people use for basically the back end. It was a little bit like hipster database at the time. Right? So using Postgres was like an interesting decision, right? But we used it because it had a bunch of geo features built inBecause we thought we were going to be a check nap. The programming was very easy. There was nothing no machine learning at all zero. You're right. If I were to do something today, I think it would be very different in terms of launch

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