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Re:Chris Lattner to Lead SiFive Platform Engineering Team by zapnuk on Monday January 27, 2020 @12:10PM (#22161340)
My guess is that Swift+Tensorflow on hold.

Last I checked, Swift is still years away from 1st class Windows support and adequate tooling. Without those in place, Swift+Tensorflow is still a very niche product for Google and I cannot think of a good enough reason why they should heavily invest into it.

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Re:Chris Lattner to Lead SiFive Platform Engineering Team by seanmcdirmid on Monday January 27, 2020 @12:14PM (#22161384)
Why would windows matter so much for tensorflow? Isn’t most ML work these days done under Linux?
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Re:Chris Lattner to Lead SiFive Platform Engineering Team by pjmlp on Monday January 27, 2020 @02:31PM (#22162864)
Because that is what we get on our desks, managed by IT.

Python Tensorflow, Julia, ML.NET, Tensorflow for C++, Pytorch, DL4J do all pretty well on Windows.

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Re:Chris Lattner to Lead SiFive Platform Engineering Team by jeffshek on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @01:15AM (#22166895)
A lot of work from researchers are using *conda on Windows. ML research is happening across all fields, not just computer science.
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