KSksashikumar·Apr 17, 2016Submission
Samsung's Distributed machine learning platform
2 points · Open discussionSamsung
veles
C++2015–2016
Samsung / veles
veles
Distributed machine learning platform
4Distinct people
4Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
916GitHub stars
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HN mentions by week4 dated mentions
Observed mentions: 2015-11-10 06:24:33 UTC to 2016-04-17 10:44:39 UTC. Weeks start Monday, UTC.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 9 | 2015-11-09 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-11-16 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Nov 16 | 2015-11-16 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-11-23 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 23 | 2015-11-23 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-11-30 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Nov 30 | 2015-11-30 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-12-07 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 7 | 2015-12-07 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-12-14 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 14 | 2015-12-14 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-12-21 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 21 | 2015-12-21 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-12-28 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 28 | 2015-12-28 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-01-04 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 4 | 2016-01-04 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-01-11 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 11 | 2016-01-11 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-01-18 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 18 | 2016-01-18 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-01-25 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 25 | 2016-01-25 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Feb 1 | 2016-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-02-08 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Feb 8 | 2016-02-08 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-02-15 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Feb 15 | 2016-02-15 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-02-22 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Feb 22 | 2016-02-22 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-02-29 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Feb 29 | 2016-02-29 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-03-07 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 7 | 2016-03-07 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-03-14 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 14 | 2016-03-14 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-03-21 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 21 | 2016-03-21 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-03-28 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 28 | 2016-03-28 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-04-04 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 4 | 2016-04-04 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-04-11 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 11 | 2016-04-11 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-04-18 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
What Hacker News says
4 sourcesOpen Source Distributed machine learning platform by Samsung
1 points · Open discussionFWIW someone with the same username is listed as the #1 contributor: https://github.com/Samsung/veles/graphs/contributors
In Veles: Distributed platform for rapid deep learning application developmentNot sure I agree with "hastily launched". First public commit to the github repo was January 14th 2014.
Link:
https://github.com/Samsung/veles/commit/7b19147069119399c89f...
The presumption that this or Google's Tensor Flow can be cobbled together in a few hours is completely absurd. These things take months if not years of development. And releasing them into the wild is not a process that takes 30 minutes. Open Sourcing a company library is a work intensive process that takes weeks if not months. Beyond the code itself there are a swatch of promotional materials to prepare.
That said, I do agree that the submission itself to HN was in response to Google's Tensor Flow announcement. The submitter created their acct an hour ago and the only other activity is a comment on the google announcement talking about veles.
Also the submission titl
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