Re:Jeff Dean explains TensorFlow [video]
by olooney on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @10:14AM
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Learning an entirely new language for a project, no matter how simple that language is, is certainly a barrier to entry.
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Re:Jeff Dean explains TensorFlow [video]
by catwell on Wednesday November 11, 2015 @01:21PM
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If you have already used another dynamic, imperative language, you can probably learn enough Lua to use Torch effectively in 30 minutes.
Seriously, there are three features in the Lua language which are not trivial: metatables, coroutines and _ENV. None of those are needed to use Torch.
It will take more time to learn Torch-specific APIs, but the same problem exists with the other ML frameworks.