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by rotskoff 2927 days ago
This blog post describes twitter's move from Lua Torch to Tensorflow. I am surprised to see it so highly ranked on the front page because there's very little content here. Basically, they describe the sorts of data structures they use and list a couple of advantages of Tensorflow vs. the out-of-date Lua Torch framework.
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It's probably on the front page because a lot of people are deciding between PyTorch or Tensorflow for their company's production ML pipeline, and this is an article about making exactly that decision. Even if they didn't present any actual analysis, just the sentence "Twitter's ML team, which had previously used LuaTorch, recently evaluated PyTorch and Tensorflow and ultimately decided to standardize on Tensorflow" would be of interest to a lot of people.