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From: Fis Trivial <ybbs.daans@hotmail.com>
To: Konrad Hinsen <konrad.hinsen@fastmail.net>
Cc: Guix Devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Do you use packages in Guix to run neural networks?
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2018 04:43:50 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <MWHPR16MB0063D554B40B37389DEAD7B292F50@MWHPR16MB0063.namprd16.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m1sha6ig63.fsf@fastmail.net>


>
> It depends. The frontier between data and code is not as clear as it may
> seem. An example: the weights of a trained neural network can be seen as
> data (a bunch of numbers), but also as code for a special-purpose
> processor defined by the neural network.
>
> Starting from that example, consider that the weights of a neural
> network are not fundamentally different from fit parameters in other
> scientific models. For example the positions of the atoms in a protein
> structure. Using the same analogy as for the neural network, these
> positions are the code for a special-purpose processor that computes
> estimations for the Bragg reflections that are measured in protein
> crystallography.
>

Sorry for bothering with a completely unrelated topic.
I'm curious do you train neural network with packages in Guix? Or did
you packaged related libraries yourself?

I would love to let guix handle all machine learning libraries for me,
but many of them, especially those nn libraries, require GPU to
accelerate the speed. But, AFAIK, currently there are no GPU compute
stack can meet GNU's standard. Unable to put it upstream somehow makes
me lazy to package them.

Thanks.

  reply	other threads:[~2018-02-14  4:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-02-09 16:32 Use guix to distribute data & reproducible (data) science Amirouche Boubekki
2018-02-09 17:13 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-02-09 17:48   ` zimoun
2018-02-09 19:15   ` Konrad Hinsen
2018-02-09 23:01     ` zimoun
2018-02-09 23:17       ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-02-12 11:46       ` Konrad Hinsen
2018-02-14  4:43         ` Fis Trivial [this message]
2018-02-14  6:07           ` Do you use packages in Guix to run neural networks? Pjotr Prins
2018-02-14  7:27             ` Fis Trivial
2018-02-14  8:04           ` Konrad Hinsen
2018-02-10  9:51     ` Use guix to distribute data & reproducible (data) science Amirouche Boubekki
2018-02-10 11:28       ` zimoun
2018-02-14 13:06     ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-02-15 17:10       ` zimoun
2018-02-16  9:28         ` Konrad Hinsen
2018-02-16 14:33           ` myglc2
2018-02-16 15:20             ` Konrad Hinsen
2018-02-16 12:41         ` Amirouche Boubekki

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