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Laurent's Career Journey
- Laurent Mazare's career spans various companies and languages, including OCaml at Lexifie and Goldman Sachs.
- He's also worked at Chain Street, DeepMind (using Python and Swift), and contributed to open-source projects like OCamlTorch.
Python vs. OCaml at Chain Street
- At Chain Street, Laurent uses Python for research in notebooks, enabling interactive development and quick feedback loops.
- OCaml is used for production-critical systems, proving more robust and stable over time.
Ecosystem Differences
- Python's ecosystem excels in machine learning with extensive libraries and visualization tools, while OCaml's is smaller but higher quality.
- OCaml leverages bindings to access Python libraries like matplotlib for plotting.