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> Tensorflow losing to Torch for researchers was a pretty big blow imo My perception at that time (autumn 2017) was that Tensorflow had the biggest unforced fu
by braza 3y ago
> Tensorflow losing to Torch for researchers was a pretty big blow imo
My perception at that time (autumn 2017) was that Tensorflow had the biggest unforced fumble in the modern history in artificial intelligence, not having the vision to make an API aiming the researchers.
They made the almost impossible and took down Theano and Torch in less than 2 years and fueled with a lot of money from Google got the ecosystem for at least 2 years.
I think they thought like “hey, we won’t the comercial ecosystem, so it’s over; academics and research will follow; even this inflexible and cranky API. If they complain, push Keras to them all”.
What happened in reality was, at the time that Facebook made an absolutely wise decision to lift Torch and unite research and a better UX, it just twisted the situation that for me it’s just bonkers to imagine how Google let that happen?
- FirmwareBurner 3y ago> me it’s just bonkers to imagine how Google let that happen? By being blinded by all that sweet ad revenue, meaning everyone's yearly performance review turns out stellar no matter what they do, because so is the company's bottom line.
- ringofchaos 3y agoTemsorflow 2 was their attempt to copy the pytorch experience which was more pythonic. They also lost the frontend framework mindshare with facebook with Angular vs React. As a developer i hardly use anything build by Google. On the other hand Microsoft and Facebook have more tools that developer generally like.