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## Python.
Representative project: [Machine Learning Demystified](https://nunosempere.github.io/maths-prog/MachineLearningDemystified/). In which I fall in love with sklearn, a popular machine learning library for Python.
Representative project: [Some machine learning](https://nunosempere.github.io/maths-prog/MachineLearningDemystified/).
Useful for: Mostly everything.
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## PHP
Representative project: [shapleyvalue.com](http://shapleyvalue.com)
Representative project: [shapleyvalue.com](http://shapleyvalue.com); [accompanying post](https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/XHZJ9i7QBtAJZ6byW/shapley-values-better-than-counterfactuals)
Useful for: Server side programming.
Personal experience: I learnt PHP to program the above webpage. Ultimately, however, I could have just used JavaScript, because I don't really needed a database / everything could have been computed on the user's side. Demistifyies some webpages.
## JavaScript
Representative project: [Proportional Approval Voting](https://nunosempere.github.io/ea/ProportionalApprovalVoting.html).
Representative project: This [utility](https://observablehq.com/@nunosempere/foretold-notebook-into-csv), which takes a [foretold](https://www.foretold.io/) notebook, queries some data and converts it into a csv.
Useful for: Code which is executed on the client's side. Interactive webpages. Server side with Node.js
Personal experience: When I first wrote this, reading Chapter 5 of *Eloquent JavaScript*, [Higher order functions](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higher-order_function) had just clicked for me. In hindsight, I had already used lapply in R, and functions which modify other functions are pretty natural in Haskell, but I had the Eureka moment. Later, I used JavaScript to implement approval voting for the Center for Eletion Science, and will further use it to contribute to foretold.io, a forecasting platform.
Personal experience: When I first wrote this, reading Chapter 5 of *Eloquent JavaScript*, [Higher order functions](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higher-order_function) had just clicked for me. In hindsight, I had already used ```lapply``` in R, and functions which modify other functions are pretty natural in Haskell, but I had the Eureka moment. Later, I used JavaScript to implement approval voting for the Center for Eletion Science, and for some contributions to foretold.io, a forecasting platform. I later built a small app to help me write poetry in Spanish using node and electron.
## OCaml & ReasonML & React.
Foretold uses ReasonML / React and I invested some time into understanding it.
## Ruby (on Rails)
[Sparkwave](https://www.sparkwave.tech/) mentioned that they used them, so I checked it out. Not my strong suit.
## Others.
Unix shell, Matlab. Honorable mention to JSFuck for its practical uses. Honorable mention to Intercal for the following paragraph, which has stayed with me:
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Personal experience: Pretty straightforward; it's not even Turing complete. I prefer MariaDB on principle, because it's Free (Libre!) Software.
## GraphQL
Foretold.io uses GraphQL in the background, so I learnt to use it at a jack-of-all trades level.