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Mikol Aspinwall

Machine Learning, but that other stuff seems really exciting! I worked a little bit with Haskell, and I'd like to learn more about functional programming; if my Googling serves me right, SML has to do with functional stuff.

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Ben Lovy • Edited

Aha! I'm on the opposite side - my knowledge stops short after k nearest neighbors :)

You're correct - it's a language family, and if you've used Haskell you know the drill! SML is a more academic language, OCaml and F# are more widely used - think Haskell-like syntax but with a relaxed purity restriction.

In either case it sounds like you've got your work cut out for you.