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#341 – Guido van Rossum: Python and the Future of Programming

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Python and Machine Learning

python has become the primary the dominant language for the machine learning community so packages like pie torch tensorflow second learn and even lower level stuff like non-pisci. There was a time in the early 2000s that it really looked like pearl what was going to dominate like biosciences because dna search was all based on regular expression engine still does i spent quite a long time with pearl that was another letting go let me go of this kind of uh data processing systemYeah the reasons why python became the lingua franca of scientific code and and machine learning in particular and data science had a lot to do with anything was better than c or c plus plus recently a guy who worked

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