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Cody Crumrine

Big strength #1) Python has several good libraries that will let you write functions in Python that actually execute compiled on a GPU. This is a big reason why it's so popular in Machine Learning. Python itself is super inefficient (like most loosely typed interpreted languages) but it let's you run code in a more efficient way for something like a neural net.

2) pandas and numpy

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Cody Crumrine

lol markdown made my #2 a header