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Javascript isn't just a frontend language though, is it? > I'm not applying ML strategies to hundreds of thousands of data points Maybe you aren't, but the fo
by EForEndeavour 7y ago
Javascript isn't just a frontend language though, is it?
> I'm not applying ML strategies to hundreds of thousands of data points
Maybe you aren't, but the folks over at tensorflow.js [1] certainly are, as well as Andrej Karpathy's ConvnetJS [2].
[1] https://www.tensorflow.org/js https://www.tensorflow.org/js
[2] https://cs.stanford.edu/people/karpathy/convnetjs/demo/classify2d.html https://cs.stanford.edu/people/karpathy/convnetjs/demo/class...
- ng12 7y agoWhich is why I specified I was talking about the front-end.
- EForEndeavour 7y agoThere's plenty of demand for and work on frontend JS performance as well, e.g, https://greensock.com/ https://greensock.com/
- ng12 7y agoYou're being pedantic -- I'm not saying that there performance-critical JS code doesn't exist, I'm saying that the push for readability over performance isn't going anywhere.