CNTK-World
Learning and science
deep learning tutorials
SHOW HN2017
How HN took it
2 positive, 5 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 3 critical, out of 10 comments about the project. Thread score -0.08.
Execution: 1 for, 1 againstDesign: 0 for, 1 againstDocs: 1 for, 0 againstIdea: 0 for, 1 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Useful documentation for a hard-to-find framework
From 1 comment
I’ve been doing a lot of work with CNTK lately (and for the most part I quite like it compared to TensorFlow), but there are two things in particular that need to be addressed…
king_magic on HN
Notebooks runnable on Azure Notebooks
From 1 comment
From a sister group at msft: you can load & run the notebooks using https://notebooks.azure.com. When you create a Library, select +New from GitHub and enter the above path. It’s…
smortaz on HN
Objections
Installation is difficult and error-prone
From 2 comments
That installation tutorial is a far, far cry from installing Anaconda then running "conda install tensorflow-gpu". Microsoft has a simpler python-only installation process [1],…
mastry on HNOn the install page https://github.com/astorfi/CNTK-World/tree/master/docs/tutorials/installation it would be nice if it says which version(s) of Ubuntu are supported.
cabalamat on HN
No batch normalization on CPU and no macOS support in CNTK
From 1 comment
I’ve been doing a lot of work with CNTK lately (and for the most part I quite like it compared to TensorFlow), but there are two things in particular that need to be addressed…
king_magic on HN
Tile layout breaks on mobile screens
From 1 comment
Very cool! Though you might want to encourage whomever manages that page to open it on their phone. There is something wrong with the column width calculation which makes the…
yodon on HN
Requests
GPU support on Azure Notebooks
From 2 comments
From a sister group at msft: you can load & run the notebooks using https://notebooks.azure.com. When you create a Library, select +New from GitHub and enter the above path. It’s…
smortaz on HN..they should offer for the user to pay for gpu access..
make3 on HN
Document supported Ubuntu versions in install guide
From 1 comment
On the install page https://github.com/astorfi/CNTK-World/tree/master/docs/tutorials/installation it would be nice if it says which version(s) of Ubuntu are supported.
cabalamat on HN
Report training time and cost in tutorials
From 1 comment
If you have this information, one thing that would be really helpful with this type of tutorial is to know how long it took to train the models when you tested them last (and…
garysieling on HN
Spark support in notebooks
From 1 comment
Do you have Spark support? I'd love a managed Spark notebook that runs on Azure which wouldn't require any setup/manageability on my end.
curiousDog on HN
Questions
How does BrainScript compare to the Python API?
From 1 comment
After looking at brainscript I'm more and more drawn to the idea of building the network outside the data wrangling environment. Do you have any experience with brainscript and…
wodenokoto on HN
Alternatives named
TensorFlow
From 1 comment
I’ve been doing a lot of work with CNTK lately (and for the most part I quite like it compared to TensorFlow), but there are two things in particular that need to be addressed…
king_magic on HN
Databricks
From 1 comment
Ah thanks, I've tried HDinsight in the past and it's a bit of a pain to set up and maintain. Also, I had to pay for the cluster reservation. I was hoping for a more pay as you go…
curiousDog on HN