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Francois Chollet is leaving Google

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377 points xnx | 1 comments | 13 Nov 24 22:28 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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minimaxir ◴[13 Nov 24 23:23 UTC] No.42131340[source]▶
Genuine question: who is using Keras in production nowadays? I've done a few work projects in Keras/TensorFlow over the years and it created a lot of technical debt and lost time debugging it, with said issues disappearing once I switched to PyTorch.

The training loop with Keras for simple model is indeed easier and faster than PyTorch oriented helpers (e.g. Lightning AI, Hugging Face accelerate) but much, much less flexible.

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magicalhippo ◴[14 Nov 24 00:24 UTC] No.42131775[source]▶
As someone who hasn't really used either, what's pytorch doing that's so much better?
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1. adultSwim ◴[14 Nov 24 04:54 UTC] No.42133260[source]▶
Being successful is also why it's better. PyTorch has a thriving ecosystem of software around it and a large userbase. Picking it comes with many network benefits.