Data Science Model Deployments and Cloud Computing on GCP - Strong Versus Weak

The video tutorial discusses the differences between strong and weak typing in programming languages. It explains how weakly typed languages like JavaScript allow variables to change types dynamically, while strongly typed languages like TypeScript enforce type consistency, preventing such changes. The tutorial provides examples of type changes in JavaScript and TypeScript, highlighting the flexibility of weak typing and the strictness of strong typing. It also covers type inference and explicit type declaration in TypeScript, demonstrating how programmers can specify variable types to avoid errors.

In the context of the provided text, what does it mean to infer a type?

Describe the process of declaring a variable with a specific type in TypeScript.