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Reply to comment by katprop in [R] The Forward-Forward Algorithm: Some Preliminary Investigations [Geoffrey Hinton] by shitboots
I think trying to understand the mind must be in one of his main motivations. If it wasn't for that, he would have not contributed to machine learning to begin with. So going off the deep end is a side effect of whatever it is that made him a great researcher.
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I wonder if the usefulness of Lightning depends on your use case. Very standard tasks may benefit from Lighting, while a very exploratory PhD project may benefit from the more explicit control you have in plain pytorch. Could that be the case?
Basic pytorch has served me well in my PhD. I can quickly set up a multi-GPU project, e.g., for training GANs or semantic segmentation, and track metrics. The multi-GPU boilerplate is not that much, and learning how Lightning works on the inside (in the end you need to know this anyways) seems like more effort.
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Reply to comment by vonabarak in [D] Am I stupid for avoiding high level frameworks? by bigbossStrife
A high level API that feels like a low level API. That was at least the joke back then for TF 1.X
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Reply to [D] ML Researchers/Engineers in Industry: Why don't companies use open source models more often? by tennismlandguitar
Dear academics, please add an MIT license to your GitHub code. If it has no license, or some non-commercial license, we company folks can't use your code.