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Deep Learning with PyTorch: A 60 Minute Blitz [video]

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Re: Deep Learning with PyTorch: A 60 Minute Blitz [video]

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For anyone who's interested in learning PyTorch, here's the best video course I was able to find:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZbbT5o_s2xrfNyHZsM6u...

They explain things incredibly well, videos are easy to understand, engaging, and to the point. Highly recommend it to everyone!

I've also heard that Udacity has some good courses, but I can't vouch for those yet.

Re: Deep Learning with PyTorch: A 60 Minute Blitz [video]

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Does no one build their own ml algos anymore? I don't understand the need for pytorch and tensor flow. I honestly thought tensor flow was nothing but a teaching thing for undergrads

Not all of us need to build their own ML algos. Just in the same way that not all of us need to build their sorting libraries or data structures. Some people are specialized in this to develop and do research. While other software engineers just want something they can use without much hassle and just a superficial understanding.

Re: Deep Learning with PyTorch: A 60 Minute Blitz [video]

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Does no one build their own ml algos anymore? I don't understand the need for pytorch and tensor flow. I honestly thought tensor flow was nothing but a teaching thing for undergrads

They're frameworks which implement high performance tools commonly used in ml problems like tensor operations, automatic differentiation, various gradient descent optimisers, and also neural network building blocks

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Does no one build their own ml algos anymore? I don't understand the need for pytorch and tensor flow. I honestly thought tensor flow was nothing but a teaching thing for undergrads

Do you also write your own automatic differentiation tools? Using libraries like TF and PyTorch makes sense if you use neural networks because they provide automatic differentiation (who wants to write out their gradients by hand?) and standard neural network components.

Edit: If your algorithm is not using neural networks, then libraries like TF may or may not be a good fit, it depends on the algorithm. Writing custom low-level code can still make sense in those cases.

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post #5

Does no one build their own ml algos anymore? I don't understand the need for pytorch and tensor flow. I honestly thought tensor flow was nothing but a teaching thing for undergrads

Not all of us need to build their own ML algos. Just in the same way that not all of us need to build their sorting libraries or data structures. Some people are specialized in this to develop and do research. While other software engineers just want something they can use without much hassle and just a superficial understanding.

>Not all of us need to build their own ML algos. Just in the same way that not all of us need to build their sorting libraries or data structures.

And yet they love to ask you to do exactly that at technical interviews... coming up next: what ML algos you need to know to ace that interview.

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Does no one build their own ml algos anymore? I don't understand the need for pytorch and tensor flow. I honestly thought tensor flow was nothing but a teaching thing for undergrads

Do you write your own crypto libraries too?

>Do you write your own crypto libraries too?

Some people do. It's a good challenge.[0]

[0] https://cryptopals.com/

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