Why data scientists should start learning Swift
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Why data scientists should start learning Swift
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#2>engineers need a language that treats machine learning as a “first class citizen”
Machine/Deep Learning are not some novel application, we've been multiplying matrices since forever.
Re: Why data scientists should start learning Swift
#3Does Swift have the libraries that Python/Matlab has? My wife is doing some kind of fMRI analysis/research for her PhD and she's using Matlab. I'm an iOS developer, so I'd love it if I can get her to use Swift!
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#4Does Swift have the libraries that Python/Matlab has? My wife is doing some kind of fMRI analysis/research for her PhD and she's using Matlab. I'm an iOS developer, so I'd love it if I can get her to use Swift!
Not sure about Swift libraries, but you should definitely try Julia. It's incredibly easy to move from MATLAB to Julia.
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#5>> A clean, automated way of compiling code for specialized hardware from TPUs to mobile chips
If it is so good at that, why are we waiting so long for expeditiousness on run-of-the-mill industry-standard non-specialized non-Apple linux machines?
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#6Swift? Um, okay... Good language, yes, but it's still very iOS-centric. I generally agree with the assessment of Python, but I'll stick with R for everything it can do. I use Python for everything else. If Swift breaks out of the iOS box then maybe I'll think about learning it.
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#7hm, no! data scientist are not using only Tensorflow... in the article libraries like Numpy, Scipy, Pandas are mentioned and swift does not have it or not in that maturity at all. It's not only about the beauty of a language, especially for data scientiest it's the variety and maturity of third party packages designed for data scientist and Tensorflow is only ONE part.
Don't get me wrong... swift is beautiful and it is great to have Tensorflow natively running on it for certain scenarios but I don't see swift as a bright and good language outside the apple ecosystem (look at C#, great language, still mostly Windows).
If you are starting with Python definitely start with Python 3 and you are future safe...
Re: Why data scientists should start learning Swift
#8Does Swift have the libraries that Python/Matlab has? My wife is doing some kind of fMRI analysis/research for her PhD and she's using Matlab. I'm an iOS developer, so I'd love it if I can get her to use Swift!
I know companies like e.g. Airbus which replaced Matlab with Python.
Re: Why data scientists should start learning Swift
#9Does Swift have the libraries that Python/Matlab has? My wife is doing some kind of fMRI analysis/research for her PhD and she's using Matlab. I'm an iOS developer, so I'd love it if I can get her to use Swift!
Most fMRI toolboxes are written in Matlab or Python unfortunately. You don't really want to go down the path of trying to rewrite (most of them) too.
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#10Honestly I don't even use Swift for serious iOS apps, just for 'throwaway' apps for lack of a better word. Swift would need to stabilize for at least 5-10 years before I would consider building anything with Swift as the foundation. I strongly believe in backwards compatibility, the Swift team does not.