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The state of deep learning in Debian

53 points by ashitlerferad 10y ago

amelius 10y ago
When will Linux get a decent speech-to-text input device?
- zxcvcxz 10y ago
  Perhaps when windows gets decent font rendering, package management, and filesystems.
  - curiousgal 10y ago
    http://i.imgur.com/tdgwm5k.gifv http://i.imgur.com/tdgwm5k.gifv
- majewsky 10y ago
  To the down-voters: Can you suggest a good one? (Honest question, I would really appreciate a nice STT solution for voice control and transcribing.)
iverjo 10y ago
Sadly, the authors of Brainstorm haven't worked much on it since the end of November last year. Currently, I don't see why one would prefer Brainstorm over more popular deep learning libraries that are more actively maintained and have more examples, documentation and features.
- fchollet 10y ago
  In fact, "Brainstorm" is one of the least used packages among all deep learning libraries. For reference, here is the number of new Github issue tickets created over the past 15 days (2016-05-15 to 2016-05-30): #1: 131 tensorflow/tensorflow #2: 107 fchollet/keras #3: 91 dmlc/mxnet #4: 64 BVLC/caffe #5: 61 Microsoft/CNTK #6: 42 deeplearning4j/deeplearning4j #7: 26 tflearn/tflearn #8: 23 Theano/Theano #9: 16 NVIDIA/DIGITS #10: 10 pfnet/chainer #11: 9 Lasagne/Lasagne #12: 8 torch/torch7 #13: 8 NervanaSystems/neon #14: 6 mila-udem/blocks #15: 1 autumnai/leaf #16: 0 karpathy/convnetjs #17: 0 tensorflow/skflow #18: 0 IDSIA/brainstorm
  - dikaiosune 10y ago
    Interesting that even autumnai/leaf has more activity, as I believe that it's in a state of limbo as the original authors are discontinuing work: https://medium.com/@mjhirn/tensorflow-wins-89b78b29aafb#.cue38w8z5 https://medium.com/@mjhirn/tensorflow-wins-89b78b29aafb#.cue...
danieldk 10y ago
Not to be to critical of great volunteer work, but I wonder if this makes sense at this point in time. Most frameworks still move very quickly and break APIs left and right. For most users, it makes more sense to install a framework with their favorite Python/Lua package manager. I can imagine that at some point, bringing in frameworks will be necessary because applications will start relying on them, but are there any such applications in Debian yet?
cs702 10y ago
Think `sudo apt-get install [tensorflow|caffe|theano|caffe|brainstorm...]`. This is a welcome addition to Debian and derivatives like Ubuntu.

53 points by ashitlerferad 10y ago

amelius 10y ago

When will Linux get a decent speech-to-text input device?

zxcvcxz 10y ago
Perhaps when windows gets decent font rendering, package management, and filesystems.
- curiousgal 10y ago
  http://i.imgur.com/tdgwm5k.gifv http://i.imgur.com/tdgwm5k.gifv
majewsky 10y ago
To the down-voters: Can you suggest a good one? (Honest question, I would really appreciate a nice STT solution for voice control and transcribing.)

iverjo 10y ago

Sadly, the authors of Brainstorm haven't worked much on it since the end of November last year. Currently, I don't see why one would prefer Brainstorm over more popular deep learning libraries that are more actively maintained and have more examples, documentation and features.

fchollet 10y ago
In fact, "Brainstorm" is one of the least used packages among all deep learning libraries. For reference, here is the number of new Github issue tickets created over the past 15 days (2016-05-15 to 2016-05-30): #1: 131 tensorflow/tensorflow #2: 107 fchollet/keras #3: 91 dmlc/mxnet #4: 64 BVLC/caffe #5: 61 Microsoft/CNTK #6: 42 deeplearning4j/deeplearning4j #7: 26 tflearn/tflearn #8: 23 Theano/Theano #9: 16 NVIDIA/DIGITS #10: 10 pfnet/chainer #11: 9 Lasagne/Lasagne #12: 8 torch/torch7 #13: 8 NervanaSystems/neon #14: 6 mila-udem/blocks #15: 1 autumnai/leaf #16: 0 karpathy/convnetjs #17: 0 tensorflow/skflow #18: 0 IDSIA/brainstorm
- dikaiosune 10y ago
  Interesting that even autumnai/leaf has more activity, as I believe that it's in a state of limbo as the original authors are discontinuing work: https://medium.com/@mjhirn/tensorflow-wins-89b78b29aafb#.cue38w8z5 https://medium.com/@mjhirn/tensorflow-wins-89b78b29aafb#.cue...

danieldk 10y ago

Not to be to critical of great volunteer work, but I wonder if this makes sense at this point in time. Most frameworks still move very quickly and break APIs left and right. For most users, it makes more sense to install a framework with their favorite Python/Lua package manager. I can imagine that at some point, bringing in frameworks will be necessary because applications will start relying on them, but are there any such applications in Debian yet?

cs702 10y ago

Think `sudo apt-get install [tensorflow|caffe|theano|caffe|brainstorm...]`. This is a welcome addition to Debian and derivatives like Ubuntu.