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I'm writing an ML in JS series and I was excited to see another person talking about neural networks in Javascript (an upcoming post of mine). I was a little di
by bkanber 14y ago
I'm writing an ML in JS series and I was excited to see another person talking about neural networks in Javascript (an upcoming post of mine). I was a little disappointed to see that the article doesn't talk about the actual neural net!
But still the message is clear: Javascript can do some damned cool things.
- johnleppings 14y agoIt's a turing complete language. Why is it surprising or note-worthy that you can implement ML algorithms in it?
- bkanber 14y agoBecause up until relatively recently, JS was slow and crippled. The public image of JS is that its only use is Ajax and making popups. It's only recently being recognized as a "real language". Surprising and note-worthy that you can do ML in JS? No. But novel? Yes.
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- Wilya 14y agoThat you can implement them isn't impressive. But most ML algorithms ("applying a pretrained neural network" being a notable exception to that) are compute-intensive, so in a language that doesn't have access to Lapack/Blas/etc, performance will be terrible.
- mrspeaker 14y agoThis article was from 2009 too, and since then typed arrays have arrived which HUGELY sped up my messing-around-with-neural nets (without me actually having to write good code)!
- qntmfred 14y agolink?
- bkanber 14y agohttp://burakkanber.com/blog/ http://burakkanber.com/blog/ I've recently started a Physics in JS and a ML in JS series. Hope you like it!