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comments by YB on JB's arch_sr/plugin_JB.py
| author | Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca> |
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| date | Thu, 23 Sep 2010 11:49:19 -0400 |
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2 YB. I am very worried about this proposal. It looks again like we would be |
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3 creating another language to replace one we already have, namely python, |
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4 mainly so that we could have introspection and programmable changes |
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5 into an existing control flow structure (e.g. the standard DBN code). |
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7 I feel that the negatives outweigh the advantages. |
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9 Please correct me: |
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11 Disadvantages: |
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13 * much more difficult to read |
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14 * much more difficult to debug |
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16 Advantages: |
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18 * easier to serialize (can't we serialize an ordinary Python class created by a normal user?) |
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19 * possible but not easier to programmatically modify existing learning algorithms |
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20 (why not the usual constructor parameters and hooks, |
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21 when possible, and just create another code for a new DBN variant when it can't fit?) |
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22 * am I missing something? |
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24 I am not convinced that any of the stated advantages can't be achieved in more traditional ways. |
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