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Swift for TensorFlow: The Next-Generation Machine Learning Framework (TF Dev Summit '19)

Swift for TensorFlow: The Next-Generation Machine Learning Framework (TF Dev Summit '19) on HackerTube: recommended by 1 Hacker News commenter across 1 month, 2019–2023.

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Chris Lattner and Brennan Saeta present Swift for TensorFlow at the TensorFlow Dev Summit 2019, covering language-integrated automatic differentiation and tooling for machine learning in Swift.

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Cited as the source for Google's Swift for TensorFlow effort, later remembered as a once-hyped ML language.

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“This one is very interesting and unexpected.”
— albertop, May 2020, in “Swift AWS Lambda Runtime”

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4 Hacker News comments link this video. Each one links back to its thread.

albertopMay 2020Recommends

This one is very interesting and unexpected. Swift for TensorFlow: The Next-Generation Machine Learning Framework: ▶ this video

in “Swift AWS Lambda Runtime” · View on HN

UncleOxidantMay 2023Cites it

Exactly. Lattner himself has been involved in some of this - Swift for Tensorflow comes to mind. I'm old enough to remember when Swift for Tensorflow was going to be the new ML language hotness: [link] and ▶ this video

in “Mojo might be the biggest thing to happen in programming for decades” · View on HN

bbrianMar 2019Cites it

Google are beginning to use it for Tensorflow: ▶ this video There's a course currently running in University of San Francisco run by Fast.ai which is using Swift-Tensorflow taught by Chris Lattner for two lessons: [link] Not exactly what you asked, but pertinent.

in “Swift UTF-8 String” · View on HN

abaloneMar 2019Cites it

> Almost 0% chance any reputable company relies on something like go or swift to drive an automobile out on public roads. You couldn’t be more wrong. Tesla hired the creator of Swift to run Autopilot software. He’s now at Google where he’s working on making Swift a primary language for TensorFlow.[1] [1] ▶ this video

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Machine learning & deep learningProgramming language designCompilers, interpreters & program analysisswifttensorflowautomatic differentiationchris lattnermachine learning