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by agibsonccc 3358 days ago
https://deeplearning4j.org/quickstart

I agree with you if my aim were to mainly promote new users here - I was more targeting someone who knew what dl4j was already and had maybe used it.

I usually don't comment unless someone mentions the library by name. 99.99999% of the people who comment on here are going to likely be more interested in python in which I usually point them at keras.

Thanks for the feedback though! I'm not sure what to do beyond "git clone and import into intellij".

If you'd like feel free to file an issue on I'm guessing? the nd4j repo you were looking at? We always take feedback seriously if people take 5 seconds to post problems they've found. My head of training does our docs and videos and updates the site when he can.

Here are some of our youtube videos: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCa-HKBJwkfzs4AgZtdUuBXQ
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RandyRanderson 3358 days ago
I've already sunk an hour or two into dlj4 and both times I tried it there were install issues. Maybe it's better now but I'm cutting my losses at this point.

Also intellij is 50% of Java developers but likely a much smaller % if you remove the users just using it to dev on Android.

Maybe if I stop being so lazy i'll package my ML lib up.

Anyhow if there are ppl out there looking for a good Java ML lib here are the ones I use:

* Neural Net general lib - Encog

* NLP - StanfordNLP

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agibsonccc 3358 days ago
Hmm - I would recommend our gitter channel: https://gitter.im/deeplearning4j/deeplearning4j

I'm not sure what "install issues" you'd have. Maven is all you need to know.

We're not any different than any other java library out there. There's nothing to "install". It's a library you use via maven/gradle/sbt just like anything else. Rather than commenting on hacker news about this (where most of my devs won't see it) file an issue and say what you had trouble with.

Considering the baseline in deep learning is usually "Install from source here's your c compiler" it's not going to be nearly as bad.

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tgowda 3357 days ago
could you define "dl4j install issues"?

All you have to do is setup maven/gradle/sbt project (which majority of JVM based projects of this decade do), and add dl4j dependencies to it! Why so hard?

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