News for hackers. Stuff that matters.
Re:Neural Networks in JavaScript with Deeplearn.js by state_less on Tuesday December 05, 2017 @05:56PM (#15856879)
I've been waiting years for this. Once compute shaders became available to the browser I planned to finally get around to writing some code because you could project out to so many platforms. This sucks the entropy out of the coding task. You don't have to have multiple implementations, with unique bugs on multiple platforms.

JS has improved over the year but you can also go with a typed language if you wanted like purescript or typescript.

Re:Neural Networks in JavaScript with Deeplearn.js by state_less on Tuesday December 05, 2017 @06:00PM (#15856913)
I guess I'll have to keep waiting, this isn't using compute shaders apparently.
Re:Neural Networks in JavaScript with Deeplearn.js by nsthorat on Tuesday December 05, 2017 @11:30PM (#15858519)
Why wait?
Re:Neural Networks in JavaScript with Deeplearn.js by state_less on Wednesday December 06, 2017 @09:10AM (#15861125)
I guess I targeted compute shaders in the browser as a good time to revisit linear algebra and ANN since I could expect improved performance, improved programming model and improved portability.

You have created an abstraction that is pretty portable. You'll probably be able to capture new performance enhancements as they occur on web runtimes. Maybe I'll try it out.