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I've been interested in your project. I don't think you're realizing the potential of the parent's suggestion. You motivate the work through bottom-up construc
by bravura 6y ago
I've been interested in your project. I don't think you're realizing the potential of the parent's suggestion.
You motivate the work through bottom-up construction, but I don't think you have a clear explanation for who the users are. They must be:
1) Sure they are only going to use models that are supported by NN-512. This is a big jump for me and many people who want to do transformers, LSTMs, etc. and not just what NN-512 costs.
2) They have to be price sensitive. But if you want larger companies, they will rarely just have one use-case that NN-512 supports; they will probably have a ton of use-cases that NN-512 supports.
3) They want to target AVX-512. If they are a medium or larger company they probably want to have tooling around this, to support model development and later deployment.
Those are my thoughts in general.
I currently need to be able to target and deploy on PC and Mac CPUs from the past 10 years. (I know, this is specific.)
I think parent is saying that individual devs are more likely to try NN-512 if they don't have to learn a new API, since most of them want to have the flexibility to fool around before committing to a new tech or bringing it in-house.
I guess my suggestion is really try to specifically define who the user is for NN-512 and what NN problems they are trying to solve, and let that shape the roadmap.
- 37ef_ced3 6y agoMy original thinking was that companies needing to use transformers, LSTMs, etc., would want to fund the development after doing the simple work to evaluate NN-512's ResNeXt or DenseNet performance on their hardware Same with development of tooling (network conversion, parameter import). It just takes a lot of time/effort for me to write the code. It's easy to say that support for AVX, AVX2, etc., would be nice, but that's months of hard work (unfunded) I guess we agree that a niche tool like NN-512, that has a reduced feature set (trimmed to allow one person to complete it and release it for free), has trouble competing with the huge, free, flexible, multi-target tools funded by large companies In retrospect this is obvious!