Gluon – Deep Learning API from AWS and Microsoft
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Gluon – Deep Learning API from AWS and Microsoft
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Re: Gluon – Deep Learning API from AWS and Microsoft
#2A little odd to see AWS and Microsoft partnering together on something like this, but it's good to see regardless.
Re: Gluon – Deep Learning API from AWS and Microsoft
#3Can someone please shed light to why so many ML tools and frameworks are being implemented in Python? What makes Python so special for doing ML?
Personally, I would love for MS to release or support a .NET based ML toolkit. There is open source stuff like http://accord-framework.net but I would assume that it isn't as big nor complete as a framework being supported by a major corporation.
Re: Gluon – Deep Learning API from AWS and Microsoft
#4Curious to see what HN thinks of this. Are Amazon and Microsoft going against Google and Tensorflow? Will we see Gluon Processing Units on AWS and Azure in the near future?
Re: Gluon – Deep Learning API from AWS and Microsoft
#5Curious to see what HN thinks of this. Are Amazon and Microsoft going against Google and Tensorflow? Will we see Gluon Processing Units on AWS and Azure in the near future?
Tensorflow was the default Keras backend on AWS, but it got replaced by MxNet
Re: Gluon – Deep Learning API from AWS and Microsoft
#6A little odd to see AWS and Microsoft partnering together on something like this, but it's good to see regardless.
There seems to be a little bit of partnership between Amazon and Microsoft. For example, they recently announced that users will soon be able to use Alexa from Cortana, and Cortana from Alexa. I'm curious to see if this trend continues.
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#7Is this as much of a collusion attempt against TensorFlow as it seems? Or has this been a long time coming?
Re: Gluon – Deep Learning API from AWS and Microsoft
#8Can someone please shed light to why so many ML tools and frameworks are being implemented in Python? What makes Python so special for doing ML? Personally, I would love for MS to release or support a .NET based ML toolkit. There is open source stuff like http://accord-framework.net but I would assume that it isn't as big nor complete as a framework being supported by a major corporation.
Momentum, community uptake. Python with numpy, matplotlib had the framework in place as a free alternative to the exhorbitantly priced Matlab. Community ran with it.
Re: Gluon – Deep Learning API from AWS and Microsoft
#9Curious to see what HN thinks of this. Are Amazon and Microsoft going against Google and Tensorflow? Will we see Gluon Processing Units on AWS and Azure in the near future?
Tensorflow was the default Keras backend on AWS, but it got replaced by MxNet
Note that they used a pretty old+forked version of keras for the mxnet backend
Re: Gluon – Deep Learning API from AWS and Microsoft
#10Couldn't they have chosen a better name?