I played around for a while with writing an RBM learner in Go (RBMs are a particular instance of deep learning which Hinton specializes in). More an experiment

I played around for a while with writing an RBM learner in Go (RBMs are a particular instance of deep learning which Hinton specializes in). More an experiment than anything else, but for anyone who is interested: https://github.com/taliesinb/gorbm https://github.com/taliesinb/gorbm. I don't claim there aren't bugs, and there is no documentation. The consensus I've picked up from AI-specializing friends is that there are a lot of subtle gotchas and tricks (which Hinton and friends know about but don't necessarily advertise) without which RBMs are a non-starter for many problems. Which I suppose is pretty much standard for esoteric machine learning.