<story><title>Jeff Dean explains TensorFlow [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90-S1M7Ny_o&amp;t=21m2s</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>argonaut</author><text>Just wanted to repost this from the other thread on TensorFlow, since I joined the party a bit late:&lt;p&gt;I think some of the raving that&amp;#x27;s going on is unwarranted. This is a &lt;i&gt;very nice&lt;/i&gt;,  very well put together library with a great landing page. It might eventually displace Torch and Theano as the standard toolkits for deep learning. It looks like it might offer performance &amp;#x2F; portability improvements.  But it does not do anything fundamentally different from what has already been done for many years with Theano and Torch (which are standard toolkits for expressing computations, usually for building neural nets) and other libraries. It is not a game-changer or a spectacular moment in history as some people seem to believe.</text></comment>
<story><title>Jeff Dean explains TensorFlow [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90-S1M7Ny_o&amp;t=21m2s</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>shostack</author><text>Is there anything an &amp;quot;early&amp;quot; programmer like myself can do to play around with this stuff without a background in the related math?&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m dying for this stuff to be dumbed down enough where Joe WebUser can feed in arbitrary data in a csv or point an app at a data source and get some sort of meaningful results.&lt;p&gt;It truly seems like an area where once the barrier to entry is greatly reduced, the creativity of laymen will lead to some truly amazing executions.</text></comment>