Igel
AI
ml cli tool
SHOW HN2020
How HN took it
21 positive, 11 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 12 critical, out of 45 comments about the project. Thread score +0.20.
Idea: 11 for, 9 againstDesign: 1 for, 3 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Makes ML accessible to non-experts and is a useful abstraction
From 3 comments
Terrific! Keep pursuing this and ignore critics. What you're doing is important b/c ML is just out of reach of a big percentage of developers and technical lay people. It will…
howmayiannoyyou on HNThis is the giant's shoulders I like to stand on! Need to see more projects abstracting away the hard stuff (I'm looking at you, GUI libraries!)
jkmcf on HNGreat idea - I’ve been waiting for a good cli tool for machine learning, saves the hassle to have to learn python and also can use with other existing shell tools.
mjgs on HN
Useful for standardized ML tasks and sharing configs in teams
From 2 comments
I think it can be a useful tool for automation of very standardized ML tasks. However: It's a command line tool that is also intended for non-technical folks. I sense a…
alphachloride on HNNice work! This is def gonna be useful for a lot of people. Companies can benefit from using something like this too. It helps when all your people use the same tool to build and…
tinyhouse on HN
Objections
Automation of algorithm selection undermines experimental design
From 2 comments
Sure, but shotgunning every statistical test and machine learning algorithm completely undermines your results, because the power and significance levels are not adjusted for…
fractionalhare on HNNo, it's emphatically not a great feature, and it's not clear to me the commenter was recommending that so much as making a nit. Please don't automate the process of choosing and…
fractionalhare on HN
Adds little over writing scikit-learn directly
From 2 comments
"Automate everything" is a disingenuous claim. You're simply replacing a couple of lines of scikit-learn with a couple of lines of your CLI tool. There is pretty much no benefit…
st1x7 on HNI find it difficult to believe anyone who can use the models listed on the repository effectively would have any difficulty using scikit themselves. Abstracting scikit out into a…
mk_chan on HN
Contradiction between CLI tool and non-technical audience
From 2 comments
I think it can be a useful tool for automation of very standardized ML tasks. However: It's a command line tool that is also intended for non-technical folks. I sense a…
alphachloride on HN"non-technical" and "cli tool" sound like an oxymoron. But if you hide the yaml config behind a UI i guess it can pass for "non technical".
kamhh94 on HN
Requests
GUI for non-technical users
From 2 comments
Hi, I want to clear up some points. First, it is not intended for non technical folks, this was never claimed! However, even if it was, we are currently working on a gui, where…
nidhaloff on HNalready working on a gui that users can launch using a command. You can check the issues list
nidhaloff on HN
SQLite or database support
From 1 comment
Agreed here. I am not involved in the ML space but have briefly toyed with PyTorch/TF/Sklearn. I see the value in having a CSV data dump and going "I wonder what happens if I run…
gavinray on HN
More real-world examples
From 1 comment
Terrific! Keep pursuing this and ignore critics. What you're doing is important b/c ML is just out of reach of a big percentage of developers and technical lay people. It will…
howmayiannoyyou on HN
Questions
How does it compare to Ludwig
From 1 comment
Awesome! How do you compare this to https://github.com/uber/ludwig, which also has a YAML-based cli for ML?
sthatipamala on HN
What does IGEL stand for
From 1 comment
What does “IGEL” stand for? I couldn’t find it in the documentation.
asimjalis on HN
Alternatives named
Uber Ludwig
From 2 comments
In case it isn't on your radar, there is also https://github.com/uber/ludwig which seems to have similar goals.
khimaros on HNAwesome! How do you compare this to https://github.com/uber/ludwig, which also has a YAML-based cli for ML?
sthatipamala on HN
PyCaret
From 1 comment
https://pycaret.org/
eyeball on HN
SKLL
From 2 comments
Reminds me of SKLL: https://github.com/EducationalTestingService/skll
jeroenjanssens on HNGreat idea! We had a similar idea back in 2015 with SKLL[1]. We are still actively maintaining it and it’s definitely been helpful to many folks, including many outside our…
desilinguist on HN
Weka
From 1 comment
So a lot like weka then. https://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/ml/weka/
djhaskin987 on HN
H2O AutoML
From 1 comment
I think you’re looking for something like AutoML by H2O[0]. There are few similar offerings out there if you search around ‘automl’. [0]…
rabscuttler on HN