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TensorFlow: open-source library for machine intelligence

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Re: TensorFlow: open-source library for machine intelligence

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Post by elcritch »

w_t_payne wrote: post #107
elcritch wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Agreed, this is huge . I've been thinking along these lines for a while, but more focused on traditional programming systems. The approach of programming via data-flows and visually representing those is going to be enormous in the coming decade, IMHO. Especially in asynchronous and heterogenous programming environments. Actually, it feels like I've been "scooped" somewhat. However, at the same time it's awesome to f…

Yeah ... I'm a big fan of data-flow programming (Been working on my own approach for a little while too ...)

Nice, lol, hope TensorFlow didn't scoop any of your ideas too. ;) Overall, it's exciting to see data-flow paradigms gain popularity.

What kind of dataflow approach are you most interested in? I've been shifting my approach to work within existing systems. One things I've been doing is abusing the intent of web-components and DOM events to create data visualization tools.

Recently my team and I decided to focus down a little more. Have you had success in bridging the gap between esoteric academic papers and industry?

Re: TensorFlow: open-source library for machine intelligence

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Post by w_t_payne »

elcritch wrote: post #171
w_t_payne wrote: post #107

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah ... I'm a big fan of data-flow programming (Been working on my own approach for a little while too ...)

Nice, lol, hope TensorFlow didn't scoop any of your ideas too. ;) Overall, it's exciting to see data-flow paradigms gain popularity. What kind of dataflow approach are you most interested in? I've been shifting my approach to work within existing systems. One things I've been doing is abusing the intent of web-components and DOM events to create data visualization tools. Recently my team and I decided to focus down a…

Nothing too serious ... mostly to glue embedded machine vision system components together in a simulation environment.

Re: TensorFlow: open-source library for machine intelligence

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Post by mjw »

Does anyone know if TensorFlow can apply algebraic simplifications and numerical optimisations to the compute graph, in the way that Theano does with its optimisations?

Sounds like it doesn't suffer from the (alleged) slow compile times of Theano, but I wonder if the flipside of that is that you have to implement larger-scale custom Ops (like torch's layers) in order to ensure that a composite compute graph is implemented optimally?

Re: TensorFlow: open-source library for machine intelligence

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Post by danieltillett »

Fede_V wrote: post #87
kragen wrote: post #8

This is really significant. At this moment in history, the growth of computer power has made a bunch of important signal-processing and statistical tasks just feasible, so we are seeing things like self-driving cars, superhuman image recognition, and so on. But it's been very difficult to take advantage of the available computational power, because it's in the form of GPUs and clusters. TensorFlow is a library design…

One small note on the paper itself. I love that the paper's author are in alphabetical orders, without any stupid jostling over first/last authorship. I think that's fantastic and wish academia went that way too (yeah right).

If only it were so simple. It really depends on the field, but in the biological sciences it really matters where you are in the authorship list. If you are first it is assumed you did most of the work and if you are last you were the head honcho of the group. When you apply for scholarships and grants the committees will only consider the first and last authors as important and everyone else is just filler. It really important to be last when you are trying to get grants as so much emphasis is placed on track record.

Re: TensorFlow: open-source library for machine intelligence

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Post by tootie »

Nitramp wrote: post #84

Maybe of interest: this is (amongst others) by Jeff Dean, famous for Bigtable, Map Reduce, Spanner, Google Web Search, Protocol Buffers, LevelDB, and many, many other things. He's a Google Senior Fellow, but also doubles as the patron saint of Google Engineering.

Did they give him a Turing Award yet?
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