Machine Learning and Deep Learning using the PHP Language (Examples & Tutorials)

Re:Machine Learning and Deep Learning using the PHP Language... by suff on Monday May 27, 2019 @09:30AM (#20022018)

If you're going to do it at all, I agree, integration with GPU enabled libraries is a must. Even so, I could use DLLImport in VBA, and get access to Tensorflow from an Excel macro. I would say the same thing: you can get a dog to walk on two legs, but that's not what it was meant to do. 'Can' and 'should' are world's apart.

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Re:Machine Learning and Deep Learning using the PHP Language... by andrewdalpino on Monday May 27, 2019 @03:01PM (#20024467)

What languages do you program in?

I've used PHP for a while now. PHP is a language that favors practicality. It's a language that is depended on throughout the world and doesn't (purposely) change as fast to accommodate new trends

Having that said

- The value of machine learning has become very clear over the past decade or so

- 80% of websites on the web are powered by PHP

https://haydenjames.io/80-percent-web-powered-by-php/

I undoubtedly anticipate a steady rise in effort from the PHP community directed at practical applications of ML - Rubix ML being one of the first libraries to make these tools accessible to the PHP engineer

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Re:Machine Learning and Deep Learning using the PHP Language... by suff on Thursday May 30, 2019 @06:45PM (#20056686)

I write in all kinds of languages.

Just because Wordpress generates it, doesn't make it a best practice. Do you think Wordpress websites are the best? It's definitely not the most popular language:

https://github.com/emmanuel-keller/github-language-statistic...

https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index

https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2019/03/20/language-rankings-1-1...

PHP is falling because it has major issues. It has poor idioms and is slow. It is trending down, not up.

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