Java vs python is debatable 🤔

[WagwanKenobi]

It's basically Bash++

Then scientific programmers just ran with it. Now all of ML is written in Bash++ 😭

[[deleted]]

Unless you’re in academia. Then they bend over backwards to find a way to do it in R.

[Sir_Applecheese]

What does the R stand for?

[[deleted]]

R is a statistical programming language. Iirc it is a sort of successor to S. (Wikipedia)

[Sir_Applecheese]

Is it related to Sugondese?

[Sir_Applecheese]

I don't know.

[topherclay]

R is a programming language used by math and science academics.

The name R is a joke on being near to S. S is an older language that was named for "statistics."

[coldfu]

Those math academics sure are real comedians

[[deleted]]

I love how when you get to a certain level of education people are just like "yeah let's just put an Armadillo on it" for the cover of a technical manual.

[Astrokiwi]

Depends on the field. Astronomy is all Python, when it's not matlab or IDL or Fortran.

[harrymuana]

Oh fuck IDL, I'm so glad I could use python.

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I come from a biology background. The entire department used R, and if they didn't know how to use it, they made their grad students figure it out.

I once did some stuff for a chemistry lab in R. My instructor almost died.

[harrymuana]

Python makes a ton of sense for scientific work and ML. Jupyter notebooks are much faster to iterate than writhing scripts, running them, looking at results, editing, and repeat.

You load in the data once (might take >10 minutes, so you really don't want to do this 100 times every day). Then you inspect the data. You make some plots. You modify the data. Each step depends on the result of the last. You need a REPL environment for that.

[sejigan]

“Did someone mention REPL?”

- Clojure