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Its a good strategy. But its no silver bullet either. If you're exporting to a "static graph" platform, your losing a major benefit of PyTorch. If you mostly just care about shippi…

Fwiw this is what Soumith has said: "Internally at Facebook, we have a unified strategy. We say PyTorch is used for all of research and Caffe 2 is used for all of production." http…

If you want to run in production. Even FB doesn't use PyTorch in production, and instead uses Caffe2.

Wolfram was there in 2002. Pretty cool examples though.

Actually not clear if there is an official affiliation with Facebook, other than some of the primary devs.

How?

This is a very thick talk, one Rich's best ever IMHO. The first point is how we talk about 'change' in software, to center around what things 'provide' and 'require'. Breaking chan…

Its an interesting question. One reason is Wolfram is extremely talented at language design, which is necessary to build an artifact of this size without self-immolating. Another i…

Yes, understandable. I encourage viewing this as part of the 'open' mandate.

While its useful to have this kind of info, IMHO its still far from 'infrastructure for deep learning'. What about model versioning? What about deployment environments? We need to …

Did you also appreciate slide 28? "I used to think Wolfram was wrong. Now I am not so sure."

This is extremely similar to DevCards for Clojurescript, https://github.com/bhauman/devcards , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7Z_g2fnEDg

Theres a 160 people in the Om slack channel. There's more ways to contribute than sending patches, and theres quite a lot of community effort behind Om Next these days.

If you have a bunch of tiny apps, how do their data models relate? Who runs them, and owns the data? Theres a lot of assumptions baked into the status quo described in the article,…

The faster people realize this the better. What does the technology look like for achieving these kinds of goals?

You are the target audience of this book. The Wolfram Language has gotten huge, making it harder for beginners to find their way around the basics via reference docs. That said, WL…

In the announcement they called this the "reference implementation".

tl;dr: lol. The author is claiming Relay is a scheme to kill the open web. A simpler theory is just that Relay solves a problem Facebook (and many other people it seems) are having…

Topological data analysis is amazing, too bad all the hype around DL is leaving it in relative obscurity.

Clojure/script already has this. Its called transients

Fukuyama's recent book Political Order and Political Decay goes into some detail on the forest service, from its origins as a model of a modern effective government agency in the P…

What's the rationale? Who are the target users? I go to the site and I have no idea what exactly this does that's better than the alternatives. It sounds like its trying to do ever…

at least 2 forces come to mind - 1. Humans want to believe they are special in some way 2. Theory of evolution is under "selective pressure" to explain complexity since the watchma…