• crispy_kilt@feddit.de
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    5 months ago

    Seriously? Python for massive amounts of data? It’s a nice scripting language, but it’s excruciatingly slow

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      5 months ago

      There are bindings in java and c++, but python is the industry standard for AI. The libraries for machine learning are actually written in c++, but use python language bindings. Python doesn’t tend to slow things down since machine learning is gpu-bound anyway. There are also library specific programming languages which urges the user to make pythonic code that can be compiled into c++.