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The parts of your comment that have any truth in them could have been said of PyTorch when it came out. People wasting time on shiny things is how we get better
by lern_too_spel 3y ago
The parts of your comment that have any truth in them could have been said of PyTorch when it came out. People wasting time on shiny things is how we get better tools.
- ein0p 3y agoNope. When PyTorch came out it was the only option that was easy to use and debug. Your alternative was TF1 which sucked so bad people dropped it like it has syphilis, and Google had to add eager mode in TF2, ruining performance in the process, later. I would know, I was one of those people. It really was a watershed moment in AI research productivity
- lern_too_spel 3y ago> When PyTorch came out it was the only option that was easy to use and debug I'm going to go out on a limb here and suggest you didn't use PyTorch when it came out in 2016 then. > Google had to add eager mode in TF2, ruining performance in the process Eager mode PyTorch has worse performance than torch.compile too.
- ein0p 3y agoI used PyTorch since it came out, and at the time it outperformed TF1 on computer vision workloads quite handily, in addition to being much easier to work with. I literally watched the entire departments in one of the major research labs where I worked at the time switch to PyTorch in the span of a couple of months.