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by agibsonccc 4376 days ago
I appreciate the feedback. I need to clarify the implementation in DL4j in the documentation.

The impl is a convolutional RBM. That being said, where's your deep learning library? ;)

The documentation is still being worked on. If that's the only thing you can cherry pick from a new project, I must not be doing too bad.

Edit: Clarified. I know you're just a troll account, but I'll throw this out there anyways, I think anyone who judges the quality of a lib based on a 2 second reading isn't qualified to judge much. A lot of it does rely on me with the documentation, but I'd love to chat with you one on one if you think I'm not qualified. Trash me all day, I'll either learn something or embarrass you. Both are fine with me ;).
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wantrepeneur 4376 days ago
A lot of people like Torch. I haven't looked at pylearn2 in a while, but that might be good too. Then there are a few researcher libraries with limited documentation. Nitish Srivastava has his DeepNet library and George Dahl has gdbn and there are certainly a few others too. Who knows, maybe people will start contributing documentation.

I would probably recommend Torch at this point. The incentives don't exist for the experts to make really good open source projects and spend all the time required maintaining them and helping people with them.

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agibsonccc 4376 days ago
That's fine. I do this full time. Despite it being new, I'm coming at it from a stand point of providing a platform for newer users and apps around it. You would be surprised the demand for industry.

You're right about this which is why I started a company around it.

I've already talked with andrew ng and yoshua bengio. My incentives are different from there's, however, I do have their blessings to continue doing this.

I walked in to this expecting skeptics. That being said, I love deep learning as a field and will be implementing every possible neural net I can. Since my incentives are different, I can explore the different use cases with customers and help further the field in different directions that might not make sense for say baidu, facebook ,or google.

[1] http://www.skymind.io/

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