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This is also one reason why Tensor Flow is open. Yes, Google wants it to become the standard, but it's also not a competitive advantage. The advantage is not t
by csantini 10y ago
This is also one reason why Tensor Flow is open. Yes, Google wants it to become the standard, but it's also not a competitive advantage.
The advantage is not the Deep Learning algorithm.
Some theoretical progress has been made on Neural Networks lately, but largely it's the same stuff from the 90s, with much more GPUs and data.
The competitive advantage is the cloud, and the software mess that keeps it alive.
I think Deep Learning experts will be like Linux Kernel experts. You need 1000 kernel experts in the world, but you need 10 million javascript monkeys that code what dialog message appears when the user does something stupid in some app.
- ilostmykeys 10y agoOr backend monkeys that code what JSON to serve when the UI is managing the user interaction and using the server as dumb data source/sink...
- aws_ls 10y agoGood reply. At first the sarcasm (usage of monkey) was almost lot on me. GP seems to have a very condescending attitude towards high level programmers. How would they feel, if he is called a manager monkey, a deep learning monkey. Or simply a monkey monkey.
- pjmlp 10y agoWhen I started working in IT, those monkeys were everyone that couldn't write Assembly....
- pavlov 10y agoCompare our industry's attitude to how doctors and architects are treated. Does anyone call a doctor a "diagnosis monkey" because she isn't in the business of inventing antibiotics? Is an architect a "wall-placement monkey" because he doesn't create new kinds of construction materials himself? In the software industry, professionals who are just as important as doctors and architects routinely think of themselves as mere monkeys or data plumbers at best -- and the reason is this never-ending cycle of nerd hazing.
- aws_ls 10y ago>routinely think of themselves as mere monkeys...nerd hazing This phenomenon is also there. But I think, more prominent is the derogatory usage by others, especially when coining terms like <xyz> monkey. For that matter, I am Okay with critiques of tech/practices e.g. Javascript. But definitely don't like derogatory usages like calling the practitioners JS monkeys. Which was the case here. Difference between attacking techs/practices and people.