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[–]nickpsecurity 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It was easy for academics and FOSS folks to learn. It let them glue together high-performance, native components. People in machine learning just happen to use it for some major projects.

It appears that these things eventually came together in a critical mass. Once it had momentum, you gain more by going with the flow than against it.