And to promote an even heterodoxer opinion, learning Deeplearning4j might be an even better use because Java is the language of corporate IT, the language of Ha

And to promote an even heterodoxer opinion, learning Deeplearning4j might be an even better use because Java is the language of corporate IT, the language of Hadoop (and therefore big data), and because Spark is based on the JVM. If budding data scientists want their neural networks to scale, they should think about distributed systems from day 1. http://deeplearning4j.org http://deeplearning4j.org Full disclosure: I helped create DL4J, and it is a younger framework than both Theano and Torch.