Functional programming for deep learning – Towards Data Science – Medium

Before I started my most recent job at ThinkTopic, the concepts of "functional programming" and "machine learning" belonged to two different worlds entirely. One was a programming paradigm surging in popularity as the world turned towards simplicity, composability, and immutability to maintain complex scaling applications; the other was a tool to teach computers to autocomplete doodles and make music. The more I worked with the two, the more I began realizing that the overlap is both practical and theoretical. Firstly, machine learning is not a stand-alone endeavor; it needs to be rapidly incorporated into complex scaling applications in industry. Secondly, machine learning -- and deep learning in particular -- is functional by design.