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Forrest Knight

Hey All! I found out about DEV from a YouTube comment and hope to find my place within this developer community.

Last year I left my job as a Software Engineer to pursue coding my own projects. My all-time favorite language is Java - and you can't convince me otherwise. Similar to what I did in college, my primary interests have reverted to machine learning & artificial intelligence.

I use Arch, btw.

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Fulton Browne

Glad to see you here!

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Tracy Marshall

What's up Forrest! Your channel's dope.

I've been shown the ways of the Java recently and it's just something about statically typing... Are you gonna use Java for machine learning and AI?

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Forrest Knight

Hey Tracy! Much appreciated. Yea, I'm using Java as my primary ML/AI language.

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Juan

How do you see ML/AI compare to SWE in terms of "worthy" ness? :D
I'm currently on Andrew Ng's Coursera course, and you shouldn't miss it, pal. Have a good day!

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Forrest Knight • Edited

I see both as being very worthy in their respective areas. Automating tasks is important, just as is knowing statistical patterns of data. I'm just so in love with research & math that my natural progression in this field must lead to ML/AI. But I could talk about this all day lol.

Are you referring to Andrew's Machine Learning course? I hate to be "that guy" that says he already knows (my brother does it to me all the time), but I'm familiar with it! I added it into this "open source" CS degree I put together a while back. I'll have to take a deeper look now that I have the time!