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Are you referring to the 'keras' R package as a hack? From your comment, it rather sounds like a disagreement in design principles, not a hack. If you are refe
by javierluraschi 9y ago
Are you referring to the 'keras' R package as a hack? From your comment, it rather sounds like a disagreement in design principles, not a hack.
If you are referring to the act of mixing "rmarkdown, keras and kerasjs" to run deep learning models inside a slide as a hack, that would make much more sense.
Could you please clarify?
- minimaxir 9y agoThe latter, which is compounded by the nature of the former.
- javierluraschi 9y agoA lot of us post hacks under 'SHOW HN'. I honestly don't even know what's the practical application of using deep learning models within one's slides, take it for whats worth. What is more interesting to me is that one can pull together this demo pretty easily using all the new tools that have just been made available in R. Those tools are much more interesting than this post. Regarding, 'which is compounded by the nature of the former', the argument from the comment seems to be that creating a layer of something makes things worse, this is not necessarily the case. Abstraction layers are one of the most powerful and reliable tools in software engineering. For instance, I would much rather write a layer of C++ code that wraps assembly code. Others can choose to create layers over C++ and so on, it's all good.