Re:OCR and Neural Nets in JavaScript
by mrspeaker on Saturday September 08, 2012 @11:08AM
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This article was from 2009 too, and since then typed arrays have arrived which HUGELY sped up my messing-around-with-neural nets (without me actually having to write good code)!
Re:OCR and Neural Nets in JavaScript
by johnleppings on Saturday September 08, 2012 @11:06AM
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It's a turing complete language. Why is it surprising or note-worthy that you can implement ML algorithms in it?
Because up until relatively recently, JS was slow and crippled. The public image of JS is that its only use is Ajax and making popups. It's only recently being recognized as a "real language". Surprising and note-worthy that you can do ML in JS? No. But novel? Yes.
That you can implement them isn't impressive.
But most ML algorithms ("applying a pretrained neural network" being a notable exception to that) are compute-intensive, so in a language that doesn't have access to Lapack/Blas/etc, performance will be terrible.
link?
http://burakkanber.com/blog/
I've recently started a Physics in JS and a ML in JS series. Hope you like it!
But still the message is clear: Javascript can do some damned cool things.