#1. It’s slow.
Last Updated on July 19, 2023 by Editorial Team
Author(s): Frederik Bussler
Originally published on Towards AI.
And what is?
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Jeremy Howard, AI expert and former President of Kaggle — the world’s largest data science community — says this: “Python is not the future of Machine Learning. It can’t be.”
Here are the two major reasons why.
Python, by default, is a very slow language. As Howard says, “unless you call out to some external code, you can’t run anything in parallel.”
Indeed, speed comparisons between Julia and Python show that Julia is undoubtedly the winner, and it takes additional work to make Python faster, such as… Read the full blog for free on Medium.
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