convnetjs

specific field would be machine learning. I regularly follow Karpathy's blog and his convnetjs library [1], and also Harthur's brain library [2]. yes, I also found a lot of papers cryptic and hard to follow [1] https://github.com/karpathy/convnetjs [2] https://github.com/harthur/brain

With all due respect, Karpathy is serious -- and funnily enough he implemented deep learning (convolutional neural nets) in Javascript[1]. Admittedly he did it mainly for fun + browser demos (it's on the front page of Stanford's Convolutional Neural Networks for Visual Recognition course[2], which he is an instructor for), but for learning about the concepts, it's a good enough language. When the students understand the concepts and what they're interested in, then we can nudge them to focus on choice of languages. Even then it's a dangerous domain as there's so many options. Deep learning and want to focus on algorithms or only previously had high level experience? Python with Theano is a good bet and can take advantage of the CPU or GPU. Even Python + numpy. Replicating existing work in the literature and want to take advantage of the s