Comment by madrafi | Hacker News Reader

Comment by madrafi | Hacker News Reader

Polished my Golang skills and Python skills. Studied the Deep Learning Book Theory and toy examples with Keras and Torch. Some good ol C by implementing linear solvers. Understood the inner workings of bitcoin and started working on a better version of it. Most of all the month I spent pouring on Homomorphic Encryption literature was very useful. I also went trough some cryptography books (math from Koblitz book and Serious Cryptography). 2018 was less of a tech year for me as I spent more time doing mathematics (love it) and reading various books about (cognitive science, evolutionary theory and math textbooks)

For 2019 since I'll be graduating I think I'll spend more time on mathematics, reinforcement Learning and OCaml which I was postponing this whole year. And of course Rust.

What do you use Go for? Python is my go to language, but I'm increasingly seeing things supporting Go too.

When would you pick one over the other, do you think it's working learning Go or just focusing on python?

I prefer the static typing of Go. I feel like code is less likely to have bugs and far easier to understand when I've got static types sent to and returned from every function.

The concurrency of Go is the main feature over python. Python is still faster to write. But very often I want several processes running concurrently and pythons async features just don't cut it. It's so easy to understand goroutines and channels.

Have you tried mypy?

I used mypy to build a tiny toy deep learning library it was nice to use.

I use Go for systems programming and networking such as a toy P2P app or a blockchain implementation.I also used it for cryptography https://github.com/radicalrafi/gomorph

It depends on the use cases but I'd say hope on the Go train. I only use Python for things such as quick impementations or numerical stuff and machine learning Python is still unbeatable in these two areas .

Learning Go isn't that hard if you know Python it's pretty easy most of your time will be spent awing at the Standard Library which has everything you'll need.

> Understood the inner workings of bitcoin and started working on a better version of it.

Said no altcoin developer ever.

Finally someone got that pun lol

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