Swift for TensorFlow: The Next-Generation Machine Learning Framework (TF Dev Summit '19)
What it is
Chris Lattner and Brennan Saeta present Swift for TensorFlow at the TensorFlow Dev Summit 2019, covering language-integrated automatic differentiation and tooling for machine learning in Swift.
Why Hacker News recommends it
Cited as the source for Google's Swift for TensorFlow effort, later remembered as a once-hyped ML language.
- 1 people recommended it
- 1 different months
- 0 strong recommendations
- first 2019, last 2023
What HN commenters said
“This one is very interesting and unexpected.”
Swift for TensorFlow talk, interesting and unexpected
albertop, 2020-05 · Recommendation · in “Swift AWS Lambda Runtime”
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Topics: swift, tensorflow, automatic differentiation, chris lattner, machine learning
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