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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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osm3000 ◴[14 Nov 24 01:48 UTC] No.42132316[source]▶
I loved Keras at the beginning of my PhD, 2017. But it was just the wrong abstraction: too easy to start with, too difficult to create custom things (e.g., custom loss function).

I really tried to understand TensorFlow, I managed to make a for-loop in a week. Nested for-loop proved to be impossible.

PyTorch was just perfect out of the box. I don't think I would have finished my PhD in time if it wasn't for PyTorch.

I loved Keras. It was an important milestone, and it made me believe deep learning is feasible. It was just...not the final thing.

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hooloovoo_zoo ◴[14 Nov 24 03:09 UTC] No.42132756[source]▶
Keras was a miracle coming from writing stuff in Theano back in the day though.
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1. blaufuchs ◴[14 Nov 24 06:02 UTC] No.42133500[source]▶
Wow that gives me flashbacks to learning Theano/Lasagne, which was a breath of fresh air coming from Caffe. Crazy how far we've come since then.