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What about the Software?

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In this post I want to highight the software I currently have installed on the Mac Mini with the main intention of doing Machine/Deep Learning and Data Science. Some people's libraries look like this:  Mine look like this: I currently have both Anaconda and miniforge python installations. The first one is your go-to for a basic python installation, the second one is intented to intall environments that specific to the ARM64 architechture (AKA The same as the M1 Sillicon Chip). The latter is a bit more limited currently. IDE: For a long time I loved working on Jupyter Lab , but recently I have seen the benefits of using Visual Studio Code  which can handle notebooks, R, SQL and many other programming languages . I love the ease with which you can switch between conda environments and all the perks that come with a real coding IDE.  SQL: I tryied to give MySQL a chance but it was not really mac friendly to install, at least relative to SQLite or my current preference P...