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[–] 9 points 10 months ago (3 children)

This, but without the implication it's cheating. As someone who's both a software engineer and trains ML models, choosing a language that's commonly used for the general task area you're tackling (ML or not) is very useful. If it's popular for the task area you'll have a lot of references for how to solve problems, you can find and use libraries designed and demonstrated for similar tasks, and yes, you can cut and paste code snippets.

Almost every language is capable of doing anything, and software engineers regularly use multiple languages in the course of their work. Libraries and support are a big deal in deciding which to use, and will often be more important than your personal language familiarity/preference.

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  • [–] 8 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    we were specifically taught in school to not write something that's already been written, we all build upon each other's work, literally going back thousands of years when you consider the importance of the math that underpins all of it.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (1 child)

    Strictly speaking, math gets proven from scratch by every math student. Software is slightly different, since most of it never gets a formal proof at all.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago

    Sure, but it works, and that's what we build upon. And then people build upon that. If we really wanted, we could say simple loop is building upon the work that humans did when we simply invented/discovered counting.

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