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Why would serious ML researchers stop using proprietary frameworks? They're the best that are out there right now, and ahead in pretty much every way than any o
by swagonomixxx 6y ago
Why would serious ML researchers stop using proprietary frameworks? They're the best that are out there right now, and ahead in pretty much every way than any other open source framework.
Researchers want to get their work done. They don't want to fight against their tools.
- make3 6y agolower reproducibility because drivers are blackboxes, worst prices if we're all only buying NVidia
- sorenjan 6y agoThey shouldn't, it was poor wording from me. What I meant was when will there be non proprietary frameworks available for researchers to use? There's also the issue that by relying on proprietary frameworks that work now, you might be painting yourself into a corner if Nvidia changes something in the future and then you have to adapt to them because you have no choice.
- fluffything 6y agoWhen somebody pays somebody to write those frameworks. When nvidia sees a need, they can change CUDA over night to address it, and they pay people to do that. When you need to do the same in Vulkan, that’s a multi year process till your extension is “open”. A teaser here whose job is to get something done with ML has better things to do than going through that.