[id_rsa]

I’m currently on week 8 of Andrew Ng’s original course on machine learning. All the exercises are in Octave/Matlab. I was wondering if Octave is still widely used. I’ve been programming in Python almost exclusively for the past few years. I appreciate the math explanations in this course. I don’t have a formal math background but it is really helping me understand what is going on. Looking forward to finishing this course then moving forward to a course specifically on deep learning.

[asaph]

Octave isn't widely used in industry for ML. Python is.

[nerbert]

Andrew says in one of the video that before using python, it is recommended to get the model right first using matlab or octave.