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I ABSOLUTELY loved this project and used it for all of my "quick and dirty" ML stuff where I was fooling around... the only problem, which I don't think has bee

by jppope 4y ago

I ABSOLUTELY loved this project and used it for all of my "quick and dirty" ML stuff where I was fooling around... the only problem, which I don't think has been fixed is that it still requires *Python 2.7*. End of life for Python 2.7 was 2020!

Aspos 4y ago
What do you mean? Brain.js is JavaScript ML engine.
- synchronizing 4y ago
  Check out the README: https://github.com/BrainJS/brain.js https://github.com/BrainJS/brain.js
  - Aspos 4y ago
    Oh, you don't need to use python if you don't want to. Brain.js happily runs in a broswer.
  - YetAnotherNick 4y ago
    It's just a requirement. Python 2 is available on all the systems I know. What difficulty are you facing in installing it?
    - kllrnohj 4y ago
      > Python 2 is unsupported by the Python Foundation since 2020-01-01 and is being removed as of Debian 11 (Bullseye) https://wiki.debian.org/Python https://wiki.debian.org/Python
      - YetAnotherNick 4y ago
        It's not being removed. It won't be default, but installing python2 is possible(https://packages.debian.org/stable/python/python2 https://packages.debian.org/stable/python/python2)
vorticalbox 4y ago
Yeah this is a big issue that is super annoying to fix on latest Ubuntu. That said if you can get it working the api is very simple but you can do a lot of things with it. I created a LSTM network to predict your next move in rocker, paper, scissors in very little code.
pmelendez 4y ago
It sounds like the problem is with its dependency with headless-gl, but still you have a point
nmstoker 4y ago
As others say, it's headless-gl, and that in turn seems to be due to node-gyp. However the good news seems this is probably more a case of documentation inertia than actual requirements: it looks like you actually can install a version of node-gyp that works with Python 3.x and then in turn should be able to get headless-gl working too, which then let's brain.js work with a non -EOL version of Python
dhritzkiv 4y ago
Thanks for pointing this out. I've submitted a PR to resolve this: https://github.com/gpujs/gpu.js/issues/757 https://github.com/gpujs/gpu.js/issues/757 That being said, if you're not building from source (you're running an LTS version of node on a supported platform), you don't need to worry about python or many of the build deps.
- dhritzkiv 4y ago
  Correct PR link: https://github.com/gpujs/gpu.js/pull/768 https://github.com/gpujs/gpu.js/pull/768
- psytrx 4y ago
  I appreciate your actionism. This is one of the reasons I love HN - super tech savvy people helping each other out. Kudos.

by jppope 4y ago

Aspos 4y ago

What do you mean? Brain.js is JavaScript ML engine.

synchronizing 4y ago
Check out the README: https://github.com/BrainJS/brain.js https://github.com/BrainJS/brain.js
- Aspos 4y ago
  Oh, you don't need to use python if you don't want to. Brain.js happily runs in a broswer.
- YetAnotherNick 4y ago
  It's just a requirement. Python 2 is available on all the systems I know. What difficulty are you facing in installing it?
  - kllrnohj 4y ago
    > Python 2 is unsupported by the Python Foundation since 2020-01-01 and is being removed as of Debian 11 (Bullseye) https://wiki.debian.org/Python https://wiki.debian.org/Python
    - YetAnotherNick 4y ago
      It's not being removed. It won't be default, but installing python2 is possible(https://packages.debian.org/stable/python/python2 https://packages.debian.org/stable/python/python2)

vorticalbox 4y ago

Yeah this is a big issue that is super annoying to fix on latest Ubuntu. That said if you can get it working the api is very simple but you can do a lot of things with it. I created a LSTM network to predict your next move in rocker, paper, scissors in very little code.

pmelendez 4y ago

It sounds like the problem is with its dependency with headless-gl, but still you have a point

nmstoker 4y ago

As others say, it's headless-gl, and that in turn seems to be due to node-gyp. However the good news seems this is probably more a case of documentation inertia than actual requirements: it looks like you actually can install a version of node-gyp that works with Python 3.x and then in turn should be able to get headless-gl working too, which then let's brain.js work with a non -EOL version of Python

dhritzkiv 4y ago

Thanks for pointing this out. I've submitted a PR to resolve this: https://github.com/gpujs/gpu.js/issues/757 https://github.com/gpujs/gpu.js/issues/757 That being said, if you're not building from source (you're running an LTS version of node on a supported platform), you don't need to worry about python or many of the build deps.

dhritzkiv 4y ago
Correct PR link: https://github.com/gpujs/gpu.js/pull/768 https://github.com/gpujs/gpu.js/pull/768
psytrx 4y ago
I appreciate your actionism. This is one of the reasons I love HN - super tech savvy people helping each other out. Kudos.