hulistinist

Not sure if I should take these laws seriously, but the difficulty is in defining a loss versus a gain.

For example, the old "I'm taking you down with me" is often driven out of spite or vindictiveness. Maybe it's stupid, but maybe not? If you get pleasure out of it, is it a loss?

I don't have anything against Tensorflow, but I've learned over the years that it's good to have competition in numerical libraries and software so there's replication of results. Try your analysis using one library, and corroborate it using another one. When a field is dependent on one major piece of software, it's more susceptible to bugs--a programming bug becomes a misguided line of research for a whole field.

Edward has been a promising addition to the PPL landscape. I actually preferred using it with Theano when I used it but that was a year ago, and it seems to have been developing rapidly. I have mixed feelings about this announcement, although to be honest I don't totally even really understand all the implications of it. In some ways I'm not sure how much Edward incrementally adds above and beyond TF; it has occupied a niche between something like TF and Stan or PyMC which is fine enough but I've sometimes wondered if it was sustainable in the long run. I have appreciated it being around, though, and have hoped it would continue to develop.