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Re:Gluon – Deep Learning API from AWS and Microsoft by staticelf on Thursday October 12, 2017 @11:01AM (#15458464)
Sure but if I have invested a lot in MS technologies I am hesitant to learn and implement things in a completely new language if I can find something that is more fitting to the stack I already use.
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Re:Gluon – Deep Learning API from AWS and Microsoft by HelloNurse on Thursday October 12, 2017 @12:12PM (#15458997)
What relevant stack of Microsoft technology are you hoping to leverage for high performance numerical computation? Surely nothing involving .NET. Python for Windows and Python extensions can be compiled with Visual Studio; I don't see other ways to be more Microsoft-friendly.
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Re:Gluon – Deep Learning API from AWS and Microsoft by nl on Friday October 13, 2017 @12:12AM (#15463227)
Sure but if I have invested a lot in MS technologies I am hesitant to learn and implement things in a completely new language if I can find something that is more fitting to the stack I already use.

The rest of the ML world is in that exact situation, but on Python. They aren't going to throw away their familiar tools unless everyone else does too.

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Re:Gluon – Deep Learning API from AWS and Microsoft by losteric on Thursday October 12, 2017 @12:12PM (#15458994)
If you already have a good stack that you're very effective, the switching cost may not be worth it.

However, if you're more algorithmically focused, python is a great DSL

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Re:Gluon – Deep Learning API from AWS and Microsoft by hackinthebochs on Thursday October 12, 2017 @03:32PM (#15460624)
Python is easy to pick up (coming from someone who loves the MS stack). Don't let it being a new language deter you.
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Re:Gluon – Deep Learning API from AWS and Microsoft by grtrans on Thursday October 12, 2017 @12:09PM (#15458975)
It’s not clear eg what use you would get from sharing a language between your model training and request processing.
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