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And unemployment is at its lowest point in year in Canada.
I got one recently and I am not convinced, but I suppose someone on HN might have legitimate use cases.
What did the author do with it?
Personal opinion
C# is a lot better than Java. You have less boilerplate code (getter and setter in 2018, really?) and lambdas are great.
But really both are similar so you can pretty much just start with one and still find your way in the other.
1) Machine learning (which includes deep learning) still hasn't been applied to a lot of field that would draw benefits even from a basic CNN.
2) While AI/Smart branded crap is indeed all the rage right now (and part of the bubble imo), most of those are not learning algorithms and rely on cheap marketing tricks (looking at you Oracle).
Bottomline: lot of hype comes with empty promises and ultimately the people's dissatisfaction, but there is a real demand and need for applied machine learning in many fields.
I get it. You figured I like those two things, but it's incredible that it won't pick up that I am (hopefully) not that dull.
I rely on it for pretty much everything and I didn't run into game breaking problems.
There's an excellent pip package that seamlessly integrates woth scikit-learn too!
Bottomline is: it's not a good metric, it's simply a way to see how "popular" something is and how likely it is that some random developer saw your project.
While anecdotal, I've starred Vue because I see it as a cool project and I've starred React as another cool project. In both case, I did toy projects with the frameworks and never used it in production. On the other hand, apache/httpd I did a lot of projects with and I did not give it a star yet.
In my opinion stars are not endorsement, they're a questionable way to measure how likely it is that your coworker have heard of a given project.
That being said, Google is really turning into a monster at this point with all their patents on random algorithms.
Cool nonetheless but I'm a bit disappointed.
GitHub works because it effectively belongs to "no one" as far as the big players are concerned. Sure they might themselves go bad one day but there is no point in hasting this for some two cents Azure/AWS/GCP mode.
They simply understood that people won't give up their comfort.
Keep in mind that there isn't much money to be made selling subway cars.
I'd see this as a useful tool for smaller local newspapers.