Steve Leach<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.apotheke.earth/@aethrvmn" class="u-url mention">@<span>aethrvmn</span></a></span> </p><p>I'm not really saying they do. I was more making fun of myself there.</p><p>As a kid I did <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/assembly" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>assembly</span></a> - first without an assembler using paper and debug (enter 0000 for all jumps until you know their addresses, write down in notebook, go back and adjust.. save to .com)</p><p>Then C.</p><p>Swore anything higher level was lazy and wrong.</p><p>Then basically learned <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/Python" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Python</span></a> in my 30's - it felt wrong, but <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/numpy" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>numpy</span></a>, <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/theano" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>theano</span></a>, so..</p><p>Now <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/Rust" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Rust</span></a> - makes me nostalgic for old stubborn ways. And for C.</p><p><a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/rustlang" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>rustlang</span></a></p>
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Steve Leach<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.apotheke.earth/@aethrvmn" class="u-url mention">@<span>aethrvmn</span></a></span> </p><p>It's funny, but the thing that *really* irritated me about <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/Python" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Python</span></a> when I first started learning was indentation. </p><p>I hated it. I wanted brackets like any "proper" language. </p><p>But I also wanted to use <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/Theano" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Theano</span></a>, so Python it was.</p><p>Now I'm in <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/Rust" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Rust</span></a> and... aaaarrrrrgggghh I hate brackets!!! They're so hard to read!</p><p>It's taking me time to re-adjust now that I'm back in a "proper" language.</p>
Steve Leach<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.apotheke.earth/@aethrvmn" class="u-url mention">@<span>aethrvmn</span></a></span> <br />That's what I'm doing. </p><p>I've used <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/Python" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Python</span></a> for a lot of years (since <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/Theano" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Theano</span></a> was *the* deep learning library and you had to learn Python to play with it), but I'm still in shock that so few lines could be a full web service with nice rendering, does HTTPS now, all that good stuff.</p><p>A month of <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/Rust" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Rust</span></a> and building functions inch by inch and screen-full by screen-full just makes that feel impossible and possibly magic.</p>
Steve Leach<p>I miss Youtube before <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/Youtubers" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Youtubers</span></a> became a thing. All sorts of terrific lectures and presentations and so much good and worthwhile material - all just a search away.</p><p>And now there's people who's thing is being "content creators" and having "channel followers" and they really do say "like and subscribe".</p><p>Great lectures and presentations when I was learning <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/Python" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Python</span></a> and <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/Theano" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Theano</span></a> in 2016, when learning <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/Pytorch" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Pytorch</span></a> a few years later. Now I'm learning <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/Rust" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Rust</span></a>, and <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/Youtube" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Youtube</span></a> is full of so much garbage.</p>
Steve Leach<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://sigmoid.social/@lowd" class="u-url mention">@<span>lowd</span></a></span> And no, I have no industry experience either. I'm a hobbyist basically. Currently I'm a recently turned ex-dishwasher now a part-time pizza-dough maker '-). But I first got into machine learning around 2015 when <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/Theano" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Theano</span></a> was still the leading platform and I'm pretty sure <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/Tensorflow" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Tensorflow</span></a> didn't exist yet. It's been fun watching the field grow from where it was then, but also frustrating because marketing is the "killer-app" so far as the field has turned into an industry.</p>
Steve Leach<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://creative.ai/@alexjc" class="u-url mention">@<span>alexjc</span></a></span> I miss <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/Theano" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Theano</span></a>. Of course I really don't miss how hard it was to get Nvidia drivers, CUDA, etc. etc. up and running back then.</p>
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