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Skymind (YC W16) raises $11.5M to bring deep learning to more enterprises
- pytyper2 8y agoHow do I make an architecture diagram like they display in the article?
- asimjalis 8y agoYou can use https://cloudcraft.co https://cloudcraft.co
- linkingday 8y agoLooks like they used Cloudcraft for that
- pavlov 8y agoCool, but rather too difficult to read to be used for anything but marketing hero graphics.
- pytyper2 8y agoWhat would you recommend?
- blueyes 8y agoAny one interested in our code can try out a live demo on Katacoda: https://www.katacoda.com/skymind/ https://www.katacoda.com/skymind/ Fwiw, the Skymind team built Deeplearning4j, is the second-largest contributor to Keras after Google, and the sole maintainer of HyperOpt. https://github.com/deeplearning4j/ https://github.com/deeplearning4j/ https://github.com/hyperopt/hyperopt/ https://github.com/hyperopt/hyperopt/ Our code serves as a bridge between the Python data science ecosystem and tools like Spark, Kafka, Hadoop, etc.
- nikkwong 8y agoIncredible. I know Adam (the founder), and he is a super terrific nice guy. Good for them.
- agibsonccc 8y agoThanks Nikk!
- king_magic 8y agoLegitimately curious, why would this be a better solution than Databricks on Azure or AWS?
- blueyes 8y agoDL4J is one of the easiest ways to add deep learning to a Spark cluster. https://deeplearning4j.org/docs/latest/deeplearning4j-scaleout-intro https://deeplearning4j.org/docs/latest/deeplearning4j-scaleo... You can also import Keras models to train them on a Spark cluster with DL4J: https://deeplearning4j.org/docs/latest/keras-import-overview https://deeplearning4j.org/docs/latest/keras-import-overview
- king_magic 8y agoRight, but you can just as easily train a model with TensorFlow on Databricks - maybe I’m missing something, though.
- blueyes 8y agoGood point. Maybe that's just as easy. We see companies with on-prem Spark clusters telling us that we're the easiest way to do DL there. Enterprise clients are doing a lot on prem, and their future is probably hybrid for a long time to come.
- opportune 8y agoOn-prem spark seems kind of anachronistic now.
- mlthoughts2018 8y agoAfter doing a significant deep dive into Databricks as a third party solution for my team at work, we decided Databricks and a deep commitment to Spark was a very poor choice for machine learning, though Spark seems generally fine as an interface for map reduce or scheduled cluster compute tasks. Spark is in 2019 what Hadoop was in ~2014. In 5-6 years Spark will be the cure-all basket that a bunch of people put all their eggs into not realizing the deep-seated limitations. This is especially true for machine learning.
- uberdog 8y agoIs Sky TV still suing everyone with Sky in the name? https://techcrunch.com/2013/06/28/uks-bskyb-wins-judgement-against-microsoft-over-use-of-skydrive-name-in-europe/ https://techcrunch.com/2013/06/28/uks-bskyb-wins-judgement-a... https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2016-06-20-no-mans-sky-studio-settles-secret-stupid-three-year-sky-lawsuit https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2016-06-20-no-mans-sky-st...
- blueyes 8y agoNo. Knock on wood.
- agibsonccc 8y agoTech side here if you have any other questions!
- AnimalMuppet 8y agoYeah, that name isn't ominous or anything...
- sinak 8y agoWe share an office with the Skymind team, and they're an awesome group. Congrats to them on their round!
- mark_l_watson 8y agoGood for them! While I almost always use TensorFlow for work, I appreciate Skymind's open source Deeplearning4j library for use with Common Lisp (via Armed Bear CL), Java, and Scala. Sometimes living on the JVM is the best choice.
- agibsonccc 8y agoThanks! Of note is we also contribute to keras and run javacpp: https://github.com/bytedeco/javacpp https://github.com/bytedeco/javacpp which allows us to run a lot of things you only get in python directly in c. We need to work on getting some of these things more well known. Hopefully we can focus more on better community growth this year.
- suyash 8y agoCongrats to the SkyMind team, I have given a few talks on Machine Learning using DL4J and it’s been nothing but an excelllent framework for Java Developers to learn.