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This is great! I do wish this were written in something other than Python. What is the carbon footprint of all this computer vision, compute-intensive code stil
by stmw 9y ago
This is great! I do wish this were written in something other than Python. What is the carbon footprint of all this computer vision, compute-intensive code still being run billions of times a day in Python? Someone should calculate...
- minimaxir 9y agoThe actual computationally-hard part of the code is run in the GPU using CUDA.
- inlined 9y agoWhat was the carbon footprint of the turk machines the Python can replace?
- stmw 9y agoare you seriously comparing inefficient python code to humans?
- croon 9y agoIf you choose to measure something in simply one dimension, don't be surprised (offended?) when someone else builds on your premise. Humans are objectively terrible for the environment. Now you might start to argue other metrics instead, or that on an nth removed degree it/we might result in a net positive, but then you've abandoned your initial premise anyways.
- stmw 9y agoIt is funny to see this comment get "-4" already... What's so offensive? After all, Facebook has rocksdb in C++, percona in java, and a PHP->C++ compiler, so they clearly have both the belief and the skill in moving away from interpreted programming languages for performance-sensitive code.
- linkmotif 9y agoFor some reason, people are offended by gross misunderstandings. This framework is in Python, but it’s a Python binding that sets up code that runs natively (not even sure the details myself; others are writing CUDA). TensorFlow is the same way. It’s in Python, but the computations are not in Python. As you point out, that wouldn’t make sense.
- sankalp_sans 9y agoMore downvotes. Tough crowd :)
- chewxy 9y agoGolang alternative being developed (by me and a bunch of others): https://gorgonia.org/gorgonia https://gorgonia.org/gorgonia
- stmw 9y agoThis is very cool, I hadn't heard of it!