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withoutfriction on Dec 22, 2010 | parent | context | favorite | on: Building a Recommendation Engine with NumPy

Is ruby appropriate for writing recommendation engines? Or is there far more support for writing them in python?

drats on Dec 23, 2010 [–]

As far as I am aware Ruby has no real equivalent to Numpy and Scipy for Python. This is why I swapped to Python from Ruby; the Ruby community gets extremely thin indeed as soon as you stray from web-related things.

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