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Re: Turi Create simplifies the development of custom machine learning models

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I am gonna have an aneurysm. It relies on CUDA, yet you can't get a recent Apple machine with a proper desktop Nvidia GPU. No, I don't want an external GPU box. What the heck are they running this on internally? Actually, don't tell me. Just sell me one.

I assume they just use a Linux box, as I expect most do in AI engineering/science nowadays. But it gets gives some hope that Apple finally sees thr light again towards reasonable hardware configs geared at professionals.

Re: Turi Create simplifies the development of custom machine learning models

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I would have expected a larger announcement for a release like this. It seems to come from Apple's acquisition of Turi in mid-2016 [0]. From what I can tell, they are open sourcing most of that product with new integrations to Core ML. Will be interesting to see how Apple plans to position this against existing ML solutions with easy to use Python api's like scikit-learn, keras, etc. [0] https://techcrunch.com/2016/0…

seeing as Apple has gathered basically zero goodwill in the ML community, I expect their staff will be the only people to use most of it

That’s a bit harsh. It looks great for iOS at least. Much easier than developing with Tensorflow or PyTorch

Re: Turi Create simplifies the development of custom machine learning models

#23

I am gonna have an aneurysm. It relies on CUDA, yet you can't get a recent Apple machine with a proper desktop Nvidia GPU. No, I don't want an external GPU box. What the heck are they running this on internally? Actually, don't tell me. Just sell me one.

Turi (Graphlab) is an acquisition from last year. Can't remember if they had GPU support back then.

Re: Turi Create simplifies the development of custom machine learning models

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thank you apple. Is anyone from turi here? i can't find the notebooks and video tutorials that was hosted on your website, is it going to be released?

if your not familiar with graphlab, check the coursera link: https://www.coursera.org/specializations/machine-learning

Re: Turi Create simplifies the development of custom machine learning models

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I am gonna have an aneurysm. It relies on CUDA, yet you can't get a recent Apple machine with a proper desktop Nvidia GPU. No, I don't want an external GPU box. What the heck are they running this on internally? Actually, don't tell me. Just sell me one.

Turi (Graphlab) is an acquisition from last year. Can't remember if they had GPU support back then.

I can’t imagine an AI startup without a GPU support.

Re: Turi Create simplifies the development of custom machine learning models

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I've used Keras to mostly automate ANNs and then drop the trained models into TensorFlow Android. I wouldnt classify it as easy. However, it used to take months to do this, nowadays it takes days to do it. Still incredibly painful and mostly an undocumented black-art.

If one wants to start from zero experience of Neural Networks, but expertise in application development process, what resources would you recommend to start learning?

Ng's deeplearning.ai is good for getting a solid background in how it all works. If you want to just jump into building things, I'd highly recommend http://course.fast.ai.

Re: Turi Create simplifies the development of custom machine learning models

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I am gonna have an aneurysm. It relies on CUDA, yet you can't get a recent Apple machine with a proper desktop Nvidia GPU. No, I don't want an external GPU box. What the heck are they running this on internally? Actually, don't tell me. Just sell me one.

I feel your pain. AMD-only GPU config finally got me to ditch the MBP for work. I tried to use my 2014 model as long as I could.

I’m curious why you couldn’t use the 2014 model anymore? I still use mine with the 750m and it works fine for testing the CUDA programming I do. Really hope there’s one with an Nvidia card by the time I decide to upgrade.

Re: Turi Create simplifies the development of custom machine learning models

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I am gonna have an aneurysm. It relies on CUDA, yet you can't get a recent Apple machine with a proper desktop Nvidia GPU. No, I don't want an external GPU box. What the heck are they running this on internally? Actually, don't tell me. Just sell me one.

Coremltools works with existing pretrained models. It converts existing ml models. You don’t have to train one to use one. I assume that this project packages it easier .

Re: Turi Create simplifies the development of custom machine learning models

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've used Keras to mostly automate ANNs and then drop the trained models into TensorFlow Android. I wouldnt classify it as easy. However, it used to take months to do this, nowadays it takes days to do it. Still incredibly painful and mostly an undocumented black-art.

I'm mostly looking for something like "excel for ANN"

I'm working on exactly this, I'd love to chat about your needs from such a tool - drop me an email (see my profile)

Re: Turi Create simplifies the development of custom machine learning models

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I feel your pain. AMD-only GPU config finally got me to ditch the MBP for work. I tried to use my 2014 model as long as I could.

I’m curious why you couldn’t use the 2014 model anymore? I still use mine with the 750m and it works fine for testing the CUDA programming I do. Really hope there’s one with an Nvidia card by the time I decide to upgrade.

Crazy story.

There is an electrical issue which cannot be fixed easily because it is now out of warranty. I get continuously mildly shocked most times i touch the keyboard. I still use it at home with a docked setup (external keyboard, mouse), but it is a total no-no when on-the-go. Docked, it is great -- can even connect three monitors (2 via DP and 1 via HDMI).

The electrical issue started as a mild annoyance manifesting as a slight tickle in the fingers and some vibration, but when using for many hours, my pinky started getting paralyzed and would stay that way until the weekends when I didnt use the laptop. At first I though it was my pillow, sleep posture, or something. Only later did I realize it was long term mild electrocution adding up...

I tried all the electrical re-baselines at the apple store but the next set of fixes were so expensive might as well buy a Razer, which I did...

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