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PaperclipPerfector  1yr ago (text post)   3297 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for September 8, 2023

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Stop using tensorflow in 2023. I've shifted entire projects over to PyTorch and still came out ahead by the end of it just due to how shitty tensorflows API is (PyTorch is damn good too).

I've been slowly trying PyTorch but the allure of borderline pseudocode ML via Keras is hard to resist, any time I try to look up how to do what I want in PyTorch it's always like this amusing example. Tensorflow sucks but it lets you mix and match custom stuff with Keras which I don't think (?) PyTorch has an equivalent too yet.

Theres "Pytorch Lightning" which is the most popular high level wrapper for pytorch. Theres also other projects like "skorch" that gives u an sklearn api in pytorch.

Keras is going to support PyTorch backend soon as well.

But heres the thing. PyTorch is fun to write. The code just flows out of your fingers. Its intuitive and beatifully pythonic. If youve dabbled with oop for long enough the pytorch code on the right is more intuitive than the keras code on the right. Completely ignoring that u can do some serious fucking work with a lower level api.

The training loop is mostly boiler plate btw.

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