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Praising XLA by defending Tensorflow of all things has to be one of the strangest takes I've ever come across. JAX is right there. No need to beat a dead horse
by uoaei 2y ago
Praising XLA by defending Tensorflow of all things has to be one of the strangest takes I've ever come across.
JAX is right there. No need to beat a dead horse when there's a stallion in the stables.
- ansk 2y agoTensorflow is a lot like IBM -- it deserves praise not because it's great in its current state, but for its contributions towards advancing the broader technological front to where it is today. Tensorflow walked so JAX could run, so to speak. Frankly, I don't really draw much of a distinction between the two frameworks since I really just use them as lightweight XLA wrappers.
- uoaei 2y agoTensorflow started out as anything but lightweight. In my opinion it takes the cake for kludgiest framework I've ever worked with. So verbose, so little effort put into ergonomics. Even eager mode is not really valuable unless you're working on a legacy project.