Microsoft Open Sources Its Machine Learning Toolkit (thestack.com) 15
An anonymous reader writes: Microsoft has this week made its Distributed Machine Learning Toolkit (DMTK) openly available to the developer community. Researchers at the Microsoft Asia lab have released the toolkit on GitHub under an MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) license, to encourage the use of multiple computers in parallel to solve complex problems. Its design builds on a parameter server-based programming framework, which allows big data machine learning tasks to be easily scaled, and flexibly and efficiently executed. The toolkit also contains two distributed machine learning algorithms, which can be used to train the world's fastest and largest topic model, as well as the largest word-embedding model.
This is a welcome move, especially after Google did something broadly similar.
This is a welcome move, especially after Google did something broadly similar.
Re: Good for Microsoft. (Score:2)
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Far better than spawning nothing but hyped up "web programmers" which is what Microsoft was all about a few years back with all the .Net/mono crap they push on everyone.
I have to agree with the angry AC who commented before me: it's hardly fair to say that .Net is just a web framework. C#/Common Language Infrastructure is pretty great: like another attempt at a JVM, which has worked out really well.
A non-web example: they used C# as the platform for indi games on the Xbox 360, with the XNA framework (I'm not sure about the Xbox One).
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Difference is, Apple found a way of making money out of their tech. Everyone's dumping Microsoft stuff, hence the panic to open source the compilers etc.
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People have wanted to talk to their computers and get the computers to do stuff for them for decades. Now that computers actually can listen and do stuff for you, people realize that to be useful, they have to be listening ALL THE TIME. Apparently this is not what people want anymore, so machine learning isn't as useful anymore.
Aerosolve (Score:4, Interesting)
AirBnB also released Aerosolve [airbnb.io] on Github [github.com].
Github link to source (Score:3)
https://github.com/Microsoft/D... [github.com]
Does it matter what MIT stands for? (Score:2)
I know we chastise the editors a lot for not specifying the meaning of an abbreviation, but I feel like in this case it is actually not helpful at all - it doesn't much matter what MIT stands for - it matters more what the MIT license is.