Deep Learning: Not Just for Silicon Valley

Re:Deep Learning: Not Just for Silicon Valley by TACIXAT on Tuesday February 28, 2017 @09:36AM (#13753977)

For the course setup they say to use an AWS instance. I have a machine with a decent Nvidia GPU in it. What software does it use for the deep learning? Do you use the Nvidia suite directly [1]? Or does Theano [2] have everything built in and you just need drivers?

1. https://developer.nvidia.com/deep-learning-software

2. http://deeplearning.net/software/theano/index.html

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Re:Deep Learning: Not Just for Silicon Valley by zitterbewegung on Tuesday February 28, 2017 @09:47AM (#13754061)

All of the popular deep learning libraries need cuda drivers with cudnn from nvidia which are free . This course uses theano and keras which are open source .

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Re:Deep Learning: Not Just for Silicon Valley by jpuderer on Tuesday February 28, 2017 @12:02PM (#13755204)

If you've got a decent NVidia GPU, you should be alright.

I understand that Theano can support other (non-NVidia) GPUs using OpenCL, but I haven't tried this. Part 2 of the course requires TensorFlow (which doesn't support OpenCL, AFAIK), so you're better off sticking with NVidia unfortunately.

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Re:Deep Learning: Not Just for Silicon Valley by t0mk on Tuesday February 28, 2017 @01:13PM (#13756070)

if you are comfortable with Docker, check out https://github.com/t0mk/ultimate-mldev

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