It's a high-performance-computing framework that allows you to specify matrix and vector math expressions in terms of a graph structure. In exchange, you get automatic derivative calculation, and a somewhat easier ability to distribute complicated calculations across processors.
HN people are mainly interested in it because it's one of the major frameworks for creating neural networks. Also because Google.
The framework is written in C++ but has decent bindings to Python, and is popular in both languages. Aside from wanting to use Javascript, there are no good technical reasons to do any of this stuff in Javascript.
HN people are mainly interested in it because it's one of the major frameworks for creating neural networks. Also because Google.
The framework is written in C++ but has decent bindings to Python, and is popular in both languages. Aside from wanting to use Javascript, there are no good technical reasons to do any of this stuff in Javascript.