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The state of deep learning in Debian

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Not to be to critical of great volunteer work, but I wonder if this makes sense at this point in time. Most frameworks still move very quickly and break APIs left and right. For most users, it makes more sense to install a framework with their favorite Python/Lua package manager.

I can imagine that at some point, bringing in frameworks will be necessary because applications will start relying on them, but are there any such applications in Debian yet?

Sadly, the authors of Brainstorm haven't worked much on it since the end of November last year. Currently, I don't see why one would prefer Brainstorm over more popular deep learning libraries that are more actively maintained and have more examples, documentation and features.

In fact, "Brainstorm" is one of the least used packages among all deep learning libraries. For reference, here is the number of new Github issue tickets created over the past 15 days (2016-05-15 to 2016-05-30):

#1: 131 tensorflow/tensorflow

#2: 107 fchollet/keras

#3: 91 dmlc/mxnet

#4: 64 BVLC/caffe

#5: 61 Microsoft/CNTK

#6: 42 deeplearning4j/deeplearning4j

#7: 26 tflearn/tflearn

#8: 23 Theano/Theano

#9: 16 NVIDIA/DIGITS

#10: 10 pfnet/chainer

#11: 9 Lasagne/Lasagne

#12: 8 torch/torch7

#13: 8 NervanaSystems/neon

#14: 6 mila-udem/blocks

#15: 1 autumnai/leaf

#16: 0 karpathy/convnetjs

#17: 0 tensorflow/skflow

#18: 0 IDSIA/brainstorm

Interesting that even autumnai/leaf has more activity, as I believe that it's in a state of limbo as the original authors are discontinuing work:

https://medium.com/@mjhirn/tensorflow-wins-89b78b29aafb#.cue...

Think `sudo apt-get install [tensorflow|caffe|theano|caffe|brainstorm...]`.

This is a welcome addition to Debian and derivatives like Ubuntu.

When will Linux get a decent speech-to-text input device?

Perhaps when windows gets decent font rendering, package management, and filesystems.

To the down-voters: Can you suggest a good one? (Honest question, I would really appreciate a nice STT solution for voice control and transcribing.)

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