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MIT’s Free Online Course to Learn Julia — The Rising Star

And why you should take it.

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Background

Python is the unchallenged leader of AI programming languages, used by 87% of data scientists. That said, there’s no guarantee of Python’s future, as languages come and go all the time — COBOL, ALGOL, BASIC, the list of graveyard languages goes on.

Indeed, Jeremy Howard — AI expert and former President of Kaggle — says that “Python is not the future of Machine Learning. It can’t be.” In short, native Python is too slow and there’s too much overhead.

Julia is faster, comes with a nicely designed type system and dispatch system, and has a lot of potential in the future of AI.

While you don’t need to know programming to do AI, given no-code AI tools like Obviously.AI, Julia is a handy skill to have as a developer.

Learn Julia From MIT

MIT recently announced a free online course on computational thinking, taught using Julia.