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> The initial TF releases were great. I object to this statement. The earlier releases of TF (ca. 2013) were impossible to debug and the documentation was alwa
by probably_wrong 4y ago
> The initial TF releases were great.
I object to this statement. The earlier releases of TF (ca. 2013) were impossible to debug and the documentation was always broken - if you tried to follow the Seq2Seq tutorial you know what I'm talking about. I'd argue that these releases were great for the 50 people who already knew how to use it, but they were aggressively unhelpful for beginners.
PyTorch won my lab (and certainly others) because you could add prints to check your dimensions while TF forced you to build a correct computation graph all at once. Performance? Sure, TF is probably faster. But I'd argue that TF's big mistake was not taking their new users into consideration.