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Not to mention terrible documentation.

I think that’s a property of Google though, because there’s never been a google service for which I’ve read the documentation and not been like “I do not understand what’s going on at all” for a non-trivial amount of time.

And all their examples for Python are just like “run this magic-code-ridden python file, congrats you did the tutorial”.

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Ok this is very useful to read, I also felt like that lately and I just thought I was an idiot. Now maybe we are just two idiots, or the documentation could use work.

Hello. Third idiot checking in.

Fourth idiot here!

Well, you should not start with TF documentation if you don't know how basic deep learning models work. Start with online courses

I wasn't talking about deep learning at all. I think most google technical docs suffer of a little bit of "and now draw the rest of the Owl" style.

I have a degree in maths and stats, I'm familiar with the underlying theory, it's not the deep learning part I'm struggling with, it's every bit of Google documentation about how their actual software does things that is incredibly confusing.

I thought I was the only one! Like, I must not be getting what those smart programmers are doing.

The breaking changes are quite well known, see Angular 1.x ~> 2.x, which is arguably a huge reason (but not the only one) why React took a big chunk of their market.

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