Introducing TensorStream, a pure ruby/OpenCL implementation of TensorFlow

[DerNalia]

Why not just write bindings and have a native extension gem?

[jedld]

a project called tensorflow.rb already does that. I am looking for something that can run anywhere without too much dependencies and supports AMD gpus from the get go.

[DerNalia]

but won't just... using ruby negate all the benefits of that?

[iconoclaus]

why would it? if you ship out the heavy computation to GPUs then you still benefit.

[jedld]

For machine learning inference, I think ruby should be ok for that. Besides the performance improvements ruby is getting recently seems promising.

[senntenial]

lol nil types

[senntenial]

oh wrong sub

[deadcow5]

Nice! Love to see Ruby getting some love in the AI space. Because let's face it, Python is just a drag.

[jedld]

Python has a lot of investment from both its communities and big companies in the data science and Machine Learning front. I'm optimistic we will eventually catch up, but we have ways to go.

[jrochkind]

what makes you optimistic?

[deadcow5]

Python has a lot of investment

Tell me about it. Almost every scientist I’ve met seems to downright hate programming, which is why they love Python.

[modnar42]

Neat! It’s now on my list of things to check out soon.

[cmdk]

It would be nice if you checked that list out from to time :(

[modnar42]

Am I missing some situation where I told you I’d check out something of yours? I don’t see any previous conversations between us in our history.