AsIAm t1_j88rlv3 wrote on February 12, 2023 at 2:33 PM

Reply to comment by __lawless in [D] Have their been any attempts to create a programming language specifically for machine learning? by throwaway957280

While S4TF died, the idea (autodiff in the lang) still lives and is slowly and quietly being worked on: https://github.com/apple/swift/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+autodiff

__lawless t1_j88tevq wrote on February 12, 2023 at 2:48 PM

Very true. It’s just a shame that it did not make it. I was very looking forward to it

AsIAm t1_j88u9rb wrote on February 12, 2023 at 2:54 PM

Me too, but it was Google project, and what Google does to its projects..?

I think relying on TF would have been a mistake. This deep integration approach will be more fruitful in the long run. Also, if anybody wants to do ML in Swift on Apple platforms, there is awesome MPS Graph.