Ask HN: Does an in-browser neural network have any practical use?

Re:Ask HN: Does an in-browser neural network have any practi... by PaulHoule on Wednesday January 30, 2019 @08:17AM (#19034746)

It would be educational.

So far as getting inference done it would be hard to compete with the "big boys" who are trying to get special-purpose hardware into phones and such.

Myself I am through with implementing neural network trainers by hand. If you have to compute all the derivatives by hand sooner or later you are going to drop a factor of 3 on the floor or you will become so afraid of doing that you'll never change anything that will force you to recalculate.

(That's what I get for working on a "deep learning" project that was commercialized just before Tensorflow, PyTorch, etc. got big. C++, SIMD instructions, you name it...)

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Re:Ask HN: Does an in-browser neural network have any practi... by sameercharles on Wednesday January 30, 2019 @05:02PM (#19040053)

Thanks @PaulHoule, I agree. Not very keen on competing with the big boys, if something is useful people will use it.

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