- | When working with learning algorithms, having a faster piece of code often means that you'll make progress faster on your project. For example, if your learning algorithm takes 20 minutes to run to completion, that means you can "try" up to 3 new ideas per hour. But if your code takes 20 hours to run, that means you can "try" only one idea a day, since that's how long you have to wait to get feedback from your program. In this latter case, if you can speed up your code so that it takes only 10 hours to run, that can literally double your personal productivity!
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