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Microsoft Open Sources Distributed Machine Learning Toolkit
- bayesianhorse 11y agoA lot of that going around lately...
- tommoor 11y agoIn 100 years we may look back on this last month as the time when 'the machines were born'
- aluhut 11y agoI've been off grid the last 3 weeks. Could you throw in some words I could google up? //Thank you.
- vanni 11y agoTensorFlow (by Google): open-source library for machine intelligence https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10532957 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10532957 http://tensorflow.org/ http://tensorflow.org/
- ChuckMcM 11y ago@tommoor is making reference to Google and Microsoft releasing open source versions of their deep learning toolkits. Interesting that Google did not release a distributed version but Microsoft did. As this stuff is more accessible, more people play with it, and perhaps more interesting learning apps emerge from that additional use. Hence, birth of the machines.
- KirinDave 11y agoMicrosoft has been pushing really hard to make Azure a contender. And they're right to do so, AWS is in a somewhat shakey position. They're moving people over to VPCs but haven't integrated their VPCs with their cloud services in a robust way, forcing the burden onto customers. Anecdotally, friends of mine in the know tell me that it's been a good year for GCE. I wonder if Azure is seeing an uptick as well.
- tommoor 11y agoAlso Samsung's platform "Veles" ... although it turns out this has actually been released for a couple of months: https://velesnet.ml/ https://velesnet.ml/
- cdnsteve 11y agoAfter quickly browsing the docs how do you interact with this? It's written in C++ and needs ZeroMQ. That's about all I managed to get out of it so far, no code examples and very light docs.
- dest 11y agomaybe they open-sourced that project in a rush, following Google's move?
- andyjohnson0 11y agoThat occurred to me too, but the dmtk.io domain was registered a couple of months ago on 2015-09-08.
- gnaddel 11y agoI had the same feeling, the website doesn't look ... done. However, I think it is nice to see that MS is launching its own initiative. The more, the marrier. I'm especially interested to see how their LDA variant performs. Still, I hope they continue to make the documentation a bit more accessible. In example, the LightLDA documentation (http://www.dmtk.io/lightlda.html http://www.dmtk.io/lightlda.html) gives no indication of the output I would get from this. Do I get all the matrices (word to topic, topic to doc) or just a list of top topics, or...?
- runevault 11y agoPerhaps they planned to do it already, but they had to move their timetable up in reaction to Google's own efforts. If they felt giving google too much time might create a significant first mover advantage it could certainly make sense.
- jdcskillet 11y agoI am now left to wonder if IBM Watson will soon follow suit. IBM is really a very well constructed consultancy company.. I wonder if they plan to keep their IP for Machine Learning proprietary or if they see an opportunity to get more people using their technology (it has the better marketing name right now) and sell their services to a larger audience. Time will tell, but it is a very interesting time indeed.
- bitcuration 11y agono way, IBM is seeking to monetize it and they have good marketing lead already, everybody has heard of the chess story, but not many even heard about machine learning.
- dang 11y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10542004 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10542004