Microsoft: Deep Learning Freebie
January 27, 2016
Every big out in the money collecting biz wants to give away smart software tools. A trend methinks. Navigate to “Microsoft Releases CNTK, Its Open Source Deep Learning Toolkit, on GitHub.” The write up reveals:
In internal tests, Huang said CNTK has proved more efficient than four other popular computational toolkits that developers use to create deep learning models for things like speech and image recognition, because it has better communication capabilities. “The CNTK toolkit is just insanely more efficient than anything we have ever seen,” Huang [Microsoft wizard] said.
Who would not believe this? A person struggling to get the new Surface to work? An individual bedeviled by Windows 10 nag screens? A hapless corporate information technology person trying to recover a corrupted PowerPoint from Microsoft’s cloud service? A Bing user trying to figure out where the shopping side of the world’s best search system for Yahooligans is hiding?
The write up also asserted:
Huang said it was important for his team to be able to address Microsoft’s internal needs with a tool like CNTK, but they also want to provide the same resources to other researchers who are making similar advances in deep learning. That’s why they decided to make the tools available via open source licenses to other researchers and developers.
Absolutely. Google gives away Chromebooks and Microsoft gives away its smart software tools. Altruism, your time has come.
Stephen E Arnold, January 26, 2016
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