Python programming with Pandas - .values vs. .as_matrix()
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Small update to tell you about a new change to Pandas which replaces .as_matrix() with .values.
But a more important discussion is included on not being afraid of minor changes. Too often, beginners get frightened of nearly trivial differences. A machine learning engineer should not be so scared that they can't figure out the difference between xrange and range.
They should not get scared when a new version of Tensorflow is released (which happened about 10 times last year).
We can resolve this by following the rule:
** "Learn the principles, not the syntax" **