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Neural networks in JavaScript – free 19-part course

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Re: Neural networks in JavaScript – free 19-part course

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Why the heck Javascript?

Why not? It's one of the most widely known languages among developers in many disciplines, which removes a barrier to learning the concepts. Someone who just wants to familiarize themselves with basic implementations could do so in any language if their goal doesn't include shipping production-quality code. There's also the added bonus that the concepts taught here are already covered by courses in other languages, so anyone is free to use those as well.

Re: Neural networks in JavaScript – free 19-part course

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Why the heck Javascript?

coz its the best language for prototyping and learning

It really, really super isn’t. It’s a Frankenstein mashup of programming insanity that never should have come into being in the first place, much less become the de facto language of the web.
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