[cowpig]

Well, you could certainly argue that python has the best machine learning libraries. So it's at worst a relevant programming language to the field.

edit: +1 to Andrew Ng's Coursera course though!

[sfsylvester]

Was there a reason Ng decided to teach the course in Octave rather than Python? The only time I've ever used .m files was during the course.

I appreciated the challenge of thinking from an array based language, but I felt it held me back from directly comparing my solutions to the tutorials to external sources. (Unless that even in of itself was the reason).