[eegilbert]

I think we should revisit the meaning of the word "democratic."

[neurotech1]

I think its a relevant description. Technology like deep learning shouldn't be the domain of large companies and graduate researchers.

A friend is working on DeepLearning4J (http://deeplearning4j.org/) which is an open source distributed deep learning package.

[agibsonccc]

Thanks for mentioning me! Admittedly a lot of work to be done. Looking forward to a stable release here soon that will hopefully allow easier access to models while not compromising on speed and ease of use. It can be hard problem to solve and I myself have learned a lot along the way.