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You got it right. Tensorflow is HUGE in the AI community, Facebook and Microsoft are scared. I, for one, am a huge fan of Tensorflow and don't plan on learning

You got it right. Tensorflow is HUGE in the AI community, Facebook and Microsoft are scared. I, for one, am a huge fan of Tensorflow and don't plan on learning anything new to do the work I'm already doing. Facebook and Microsoft should just join Google's coalition and use Tensorflow company-wide.

Toast_ 9y ago
It's been a while since I played around with tensorflow, how difficult is it to deploy a model as a web service? I'm currently using azure and looking for other options (besides prediction.io).
- reilly3000 9y ago
  It's really designed around ease of use. What you're looking for is called TensorFlow Serving.
  - Toast_ 9y ago
    Cool, thanks for the info.
blueyes 9y ago
Actually, Tensorflow is huge in the data science community, but PyTorch is taking over ML research. TF is last year's cool thing. That's one reason why fast.ai just adopted Pytorch for their courses. Tensorflow is surprisingly low-level and needs libraries like Keras to be used easily. The field of Python ML tools moves fast...
- dmix 9y ago
  Excuse the newbie question but are PyTorch and/or TensorFlow sufficient for developing ML algorithms that can be used directly by a user-facing application? Or is there typically some translation layer involved?
- lolive 9y ago
  I hope the ML community won't have to suffer the same kind of fatigue syndrom that has plagued the javascript community for the last decade.
xenihn 9y ago
I'd love to know what sort of ML/AI communities/forums/slacks/discords/whatever communities you participate in, since I'm interesting in joining some.
curiousDog 9y ago
Right, until you don't like something that Google does with Tensorflow in the future or breaks compatibility with your app. I think alternatives in complex abstractions like these are always a good thing. Only a few companies can afford to do it so we have a guarantee that you won't have tens of them. Just a viable alternative.
lazzlazzlazz 9y ago
I don't take Tensorflow seriously anymore... PyTorch is the way to go (gotta try caffe2 at some point).

Toast_ 9y ago

It's been a while since I played around with tensorflow, how difficult is it to deploy a model as a web service? I'm currently using azure and looking for other options (besides prediction.io).

reilly3000 9y ago
It's really designed around ease of use. What you're looking for is called TensorFlow Serving.
- Toast_ 9y ago
  Cool, thanks for the info.

blueyes 9y ago

Actually, Tensorflow is huge in the data science community, but PyTorch is taking over ML research. TF is last year's cool thing. That's one reason why fast.ai just adopted Pytorch for their courses. Tensorflow is surprisingly low-level and needs libraries like Keras to be used easily. The field of Python ML tools moves fast...

dmix 9y ago
Excuse the newbie question but are PyTorch and/or TensorFlow sufficient for developing ML algorithms that can be used directly by a user-facing application? Or is there typically some translation layer involved?
lolive 9y ago
I hope the ML community won't have to suffer the same kind of fatigue syndrom that has plagued the javascript community for the last decade.

xenihn 9y ago

I'd love to know what sort of ML/AI communities/forums/slacks/discords/whatever communities you participate in, since I'm interesting in joining some.

curiousDog 9y ago

Right, until you don't like something that Google does with Tensorflow in the future or breaks compatibility with your app. I think alternatives in complex abstractions like these are always a good thing. Only a few companies can afford to do it so we have a guarantee that you won't have tens of them. Just a viable alternative.

lazzlazzlazz 9y ago

I don't take Tensorflow seriously anymore... PyTorch is the way to go (gotta try caffe2 at some point).