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I want to reframe your question.
Don't think about switching, think about adding.
In data science you'll be able to go very far with either python or r but you'll go farthest with both.
Python and r integrate very well, thanks to the reticulate package. I often tidy data in r because it is easier for me, train a model in python to benefit from superior ...
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Python comes with a huge amount of inbuilt libraries. Many of the libraries are for Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. Some of the libraries are Tensorflow (which is high-level neural network library), scikit-learn (for data mining, data analysis and machine learning), pylearn2 (more flexible than scikit-learn), etc. The list keeps going and never ...
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The concept you are looking for is called epistemic uncertainty, also known as model uncertainty. You want the model to produce meaningful calibrated probabilities that quantify the real confidence of the model.
This is generally not possible with simple neural networks as they simply do not have this property, for this you need a Bayesian Neural Network (...
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Of course, this type of questions will also lead to primarily opinion-based answers. Nonetheless, it is possible to enumerate the strengths and weakness of each language, with respect to machine learning, statistics, and data analysis tasks, which I will try to list below.
R
Strengths
R was designed and developed for statisticians and data analysts, so it ...
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Practically all of the most popular and widely used deep-learning frameworks are implemented in Python on the surface and C/C++ under the hood.
I think the main reason is that Python is widely used in scientific and research communities, because it's easy to experiment with new ideas and code prototypes quickly in a language with minimal syntax like Python.
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You don't need a powerful language for programming AI. Most of the developers are using libraries like Keras, Torch, Caffe, Watson, TensorFlow, etc. Those low level libraries are highly optimized and handle all the tough work. They are built with high-performance languages, like C, C++. Python is just there for high level task like describing the neural ...
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Your classifier is specifically learning the ways in which 0s are different from other digits,
not what it really means for a digit to be a zero.
Philosophically, you could say the model appears to have some powerful understanding when restricted
to a tightly controlled domain, but that facade is lifted as soon as you throw any sort of wrench in
the works....
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C++ is actually one of the most popular languages used in the AI/ML space. Python may be more popular in general, but as others have noted, it's actually quite common to have hybrid systems where the CPU intensive number-crunching is done in C++ and Python is used for higher level functions.
Just to illustrate:
http://mloss.org/software/language/c__/
http:...
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If you're doing deep learning (which I assume you are, if you say you want to learn "AI"), then Python is a MUST. Virtually all the big frameworks are Python wrappers over a C++ core.
C# has no real deep learning frameworks. There are a couple such as the Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit, but they are on a completely different level from PyTorch or Tensorflow. ...
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Should I be changing the weights/biases on every single sample before moving on to the next sample,
You can do this, it is called stochastic gradient descent (SGD) and typically you will shuffle the dataset before working through it each time.
or should I first calculate the desired changes for the entire lot of 1,000 samples, and only then start ...
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What attracts me to Python for my analysis work is the "full-stack" of tools that are available by virtue of being designed as a general purpose language vs. R as a domain specific language. The actual data analysis is only part of the story, and Python has rich tools and a clean full-featured language to get from the beginning to the end in a single ...
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Python has a standard library in development, and a few for AI. It has an intuitive syntax, basic control flow, and data structures. It also supports interpretive run-time, without standard compiler languages. This makes Python especially useful for prototyping algorithms for AI.
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Broken assumptions
Generalization relies on making strong assumptions (no free lunch, etc). If you break your assumptions, then you're not going to have a good time. A key assumption of a standard digit-recognition classifier like MNIST is that you're classifying pictures that actually contain a single digit. If your real data contains pictures that have ...
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I didn't have this choice because I was forced to move from R to Python:
It depends on your environment: When you are embedded in an engineer department, working technical group or something similar than Python is more feasible.
When you are surrounded by scientists and especially statisticians, stay with R.
PS: R offers keras and tensorflow as well ...
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Firstly, before we commence I recommend that you refer to similar questions on the network such as https://datascience.stackexchange.com/questions/25053/best-practical-algorithm-for-sentence-similarity and https://stackoverflow.com/questions/62328/is-there-an-algorithm-that-tells-the-semantic-similarity-of-two-phrases
To determine the similarity of ...
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It depends how flexible it needs to be: if you have a fully-fledged system ready for production, which is not going to need much adjusting, then C++ (or even C) might be fine. You need to put a lot of time into building the software, but then it should run pretty fast.
However, if you're still experimenting with settings and parameters, and maybe need to ...
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Genetic algorithms and Neural Networks both are "general" methods, in the sense that they are not "domain-specific", they do not rely specifically on any domain knowledge of the game of Mario. So yes, if they can be used to successfully learn how to play Mario, it is likely that they can also be applied with similar success to other Platformers (or even ...
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Corporations, government research, and academia are favoring C, Python, Java, LISP, and R currently. The trends are not favorable to C# for AI.
C#'s peak of use was in the 2009 to 2012 range. By buying GitHub, Microsoft intends to regain some control over development tools and language but has never been particularly successful in either. Even eclipse is ...
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I agree with Felicity's answer, except the part where he says that "C# doesn't look hopeful for keep pace."
There are new frameworks such as ML.Net being developed right now and the new version of C# (C# 7.0-8.0) focus on performance while keeping simplicity. I cannot find the link right now, but there was a post on their GitHub explaining their ...
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The usual parameters to adjust in a k-means:
Number of clusters (recall many clusters can have same label).
Distance definition (euclidean is the most basic, Gauss is an
improvement)
Selection of initial cluster positions.
Data preprocessing (data normalization, ...)
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While dyedgreen is right in some respects, I don't agree entirely with that sentiment. Sure, you can theoretically use any language as long as you know the maths and understand the concepts inside and out whilst having some applicable knowledge.
However, I don't believe if you are starting from scratch, you should learn to develop models in Java. While the ...
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The best approach at this time (2019):
The most efficient approach now is to use Universal Sentence Encoder by Google (paper_2018) which computes semantic similarity between sentences using the dot product of their embeddings (i.e learned vectors of 215 values). Similarity is a float number between 0 (i.e no similarity) and 1 (i.e strong similarity).
The ...
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Blackjack is usually modelled using Monte Carlo (MC) Methods. There is a lot of literature on MC methods which is interesting on its own right but here is a paper describing how MC is applied to Blackjack. There is also a good description on page 110 of the Introduction to Reinforcement Learning.
Good luck!
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Python has rich library, it is also object oriented, easy to program. It can be also used as frontend language. That's why it is used in artificial intelligence. Rather than AI it is also used in machine learning, soft computing, NLP programming and also used as web scripting or in Ethical hacking.
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What aspects of AI would be most applicable to creating a self learning game AI for a racing game (Q-Learning, NEAT etc)
In general, you are looking at a problem that involves sequential decision making, in a machine learning context.
If you are wanting to build an agent that can learn by receiving screen images, then NEAT cannot scale to that complexity ...
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Does it make sense?
In general, yes it is interpretable, back propagation will work, and the NN can be optimised.
By using ReLU, the default network has a minimum logit of $0$ for the softmax input, which means at least initially that there will be higher minimum probabilities associated with all classes (compared to allowing negative logits which would ...
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$TD(\lambda)$ return has the following form:
\begin{equation}
G_t^\lambda = (1 - \lambda) \sum_{n=1}^{\infty} \lambda^{n-1} G_{t:t+n}
\end{equation}
For you MDP $TD(1)$ looks like this:
\begin{align}
G &= 0.64 (r_0 + r_2 + r_4 + r_5 + r_6) + 0.36(r_1 + r_3 + r_4 + r_5 + r_6)\\
G &\approx 6.164
\end{align}
$TD(\lambda)$ looks like this:
\begin{...
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I would say yes. Python is better than R for most tasks, but R has its niche and you would still want to use it in many circumstances.
Additionally, learning a second language will improve your programming skills.
My own perspective on the strengths of R vs Python is that I would prefer R for a small, single-purpose program involving tables or charts, or ...
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It's a mix of many factors that together make it a very good option to develop cognitive systems.
Quick development
Rapid prototyping
Friendly syntax with almost human-level readability
Diverse standard library and multi-paradigm
It can be used as a frontend for performant backends written in compiled languages such as C/C++.
Existing performant numerical ...
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That’s because python is a modern scripting object-oriented programming language that has stylish syntax. Contrary to structural programming languages like java and C++, its scripting nature enables the programmer to test his/her hypothesis very fast. Furthermore, there are lots of open source machine learning libraries (including scikit-learn and Keras) ...
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