Re:Jeff Dean’s Lecture for YC AI [video]
by ehsankia on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @03:16AM
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Absolutely. To me, it's very similar to programming languages. At the end of the day, it doesn't really matter if people use Google's Go, C++, or some other language. What matters is what's produced by it: the actual research and results.
When you see a useful program that helps you be much more productive, you don't really care if it was coded in c++ or python.
The one part Google does care about is being able to sell Cloud TPU, but I don't think that by using this tool you're instantly in under their control.
Most of the time I agree with this, but some areas (where e.g. Google make Dart but also make Chrome), I think there are risks.
Re:Jeff Dean’s Lecture for YC AI [video]
by sillysaurus3 on Monday August 07, 2017 @06:16PM
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the best solution wins
Minor quibble, but: not really. The earliest solution wins, e.g. rails. It has to be good enough, but after a certain point "best" stops mattering.
> The earliest solution wins
Minor minor quibble, but: not really. The earliest solution wins, unless there is a 10x better solution, e.g Google. There were a lot of good enough options, but after a certain benchmark "earliest" stops mattering.
Alternatives exist (PyTorch by facebook, theano, caffe, etc.) in any case, and the best solution wins. (in the same way scikit-learn once eclipsed all other ML libraries, but some would still use xgboost which had superior Gradient Boosting Trees).