Re:Let’s Try t-SNE
by TeMPOraL on Sunday December 23, 2018 @07:16AM
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I love the work of Mike Bostock and the team behind ObservableHQ.
This article seems to be both an explanation of how to massage MNIST dataset for use with TensorFlow.js, and a showcase of capabilities of Observable Notebooks. Of note are CORS requests, Disposable API, and implementation and use of async generators. Personally, I'm more interested in the latter, as recently I found myself doing a lot more of R&D than development, and ended up using Observable Notebooks to quickly build interactive prototypes of various feature concepts my team explored.
Looking from the angle of Bret Victor's "model-driven debate"[0], Observable seems to be nearly there as a tool. Almost all the components are built-in, what's missing is IMO some easier way to create "twiddlable" inputs. But I'm sure someone's going to make a lib for it eventually.
This article seems to be both an explanation of how to massage MNIST dataset for use with TensorFlow.js, and a showcase of capabilities of Observable Notebooks. Of note are CORS requests, Disposable API, and implementation and use of async generators. Personally, I'm more interested in the latter, as recently I found myself doing a lot more of R&D than development, and ended up using Observable Notebooks to quickly build interactive prototypes of various feature concepts my team explored.
Looking from the angle of Bret Victor's "model-driven debate"[0], Observable seems to be nearly there as a tool. Almost all the components are built-in, what's missing is IMO some easier way to create "twiddlable" inputs. But I'm sure someone's going to make a lib for it eventually.
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[0] - http://worrydream.com/ClimateChange/#media-debate