Re: TensorFlow bindings to Guile?

[Jan Wedekind]

On Sat, 26 Oct 2019, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote:

> Hi Jan,
>
> Jan Wedekind <address@hidden> writes:
> > On Wed, 23 Oct 2019, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote:
> > > Is aiscm already at a stage where I could experiment with using it for
> > > handwriting recognition even though I don’t have prior experience with
> > > setting up machine learning pipelines?
> >   I have only tested the Tensorflow C bindings with a CPU. However
> > there is also a GPU version of the library available [1].
> >   I put an MNIST (handwritten digit recognition) example on the
> > website [1]. I am not sure how to do general handwriting recognition.
>
> That sounds great! Maybe I can use it to create a first prototype.
> Though I’m slightly afraid of having to write 20k examples of steno
> words :-)
Best of luck. Maybe you can find training data on the Internet.
> >   The Tensorflow C bindings lack some higher level stuff which is
> > implemented in Python (e.g. dropout regularization, saving
> > checkpoints).
>
> Is there any chance of getting a guix.scm file for the dependencies?
Sorry, but I am not familiar with Guix. However you can look at the 
Dockerfile on how to set things up.