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+1 for python however good luck building fundamentals given the sea of chaotic products. The whole point of the Matlab recommendation is that, like Amazon S3, t
by tacos 10y ago
+1 for python however good luck building fundamentals given the sea of chaotic products. The whole point of the Matlab recommendation is that, like Amazon S3, they haven't really touched the damn NN toolkit in a decade. While y'all were tinkering with MVC apps in 2007 some of us were researching and publishing and laying the foundation for the nine different open source learning libraries that can't agree on terminology or workflow patterns or which cloud provider they are clandestinely pushing you toward.
That said, I deploy using Python and several of these libraries (and more interesting unmentioned ones). But often, Matlab for exploratory dev! I re-recommend it for getting started.
- thatcat 10y ago>more interesting unmentioned ones care to share more info?
- tacos 10y agoNN is flavor of the month at HN but these core toolkits don't really do much. They're all running the same Fortran code and MIT FFT libraries Matlab's been using for 20+ years. It's the base that the cool experiments happen on top of. Once you dig in and try to actually do something, you stumble on the cool stuff. It's often Python throwaway or Matlab spaghetti code in a .edu directory that starts with a tilde. And it disappears when you need it most. (If it's Python, it's guaranteed to be something wonky that uses 2.7 if you're on 3.x or vice versa, or requires three additional packages that throw obscure build errors on your distro. And if it's Matlab, it inevitably requires you to shell out another $299 for some stupid toolbox just to generate white noise...) Good times. I won't kill your fun by being overly specific. Dig in!
- eli_gottlieb 10y ago>While y'all were tinkering with MVC apps in 2007 some of us were researching and publishing and laying the foundation for the nine different open source learning libraries I was a kid in 2007, and I'd prefer that you didn't insinuate I developed MVC apps! Right now I'm trying to get transfer-learning to show up correctly in a Hakaru model translated from a Church model so I can do some extra information-theoretic measurements.
- argonaut 10y agoNobody uses MATLAB in deep learning... 90%+ of the neural net knowledge from the 90s is pretty much obsolete.
- tacos 10y agoA quick Google pulls up tons of recent papers and GitHub projects. But more to the point of this discussion: the celebrated online class that builds the first principles that the creator of this article flubbed uses Matlab (and Octave).