changeset 1366:f945ed016c68

comment by YB
author Yoshua Bengio <bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca>
date Fri, 12 Nov 2010 13:49:13 -0500
parents 049b99f4b323
children 9474fb4ad109
files doc/v2_planning/datalearn.txt
diffstat 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+]
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--- a/doc/v2_planning/datalearn.txt	Fri Nov 12 11:49:00 2010 -0500
+++ b/doc/v2_planning/datalearn.txt	Fri Nov 12 13:49:13 2010 -0500
@@ -303,6 +303,12 @@
 hyper-parameters for which you need to recompile the thenao function and 
 can not be just parameters ( so we would have yet another category ?).
 
+Yoshua's comments on RP's comments: I don't understand why we would
+need to create these types. Isn't it just a matter for the programmer
+to decide what are the inputs of the compiled function, and which
+are possibly constant (e.g. holding some hyper-parameters constant 
+for a while)?
+
 James: Another syntactic option for iterating over datasets is
 
     .. code-block:: python
@@ -315,6 +321,8 @@
 numeric_iterator function can also specify what compile mode to use, any givens
 you might want to apply, etc.
 
+Yoshua's comment to James' comment: I like that approach.
+
 OD comments: Would there also be some kind of function cache to avoid
 compiling the same function again if we re-iterate on the same dataset with
 the same arguments? Maybe a more generic issue is: would there be a way for