Torch has been around in various incarnations since ~2002, and the LuaJIT version (Torch7) was released in 2011. I think the big news here is the release of a set of Facebook-originated libraries deep learning libraries:
https://research.facebook.com/blog/879898285375829/fair-open-sources-deep-learning-modules-for-torch/ On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 2:42 PM, Kevin Squire <kevin.squ...@gmail.com> wrote: > I haven't used it in a long while, but torch has been around for a lot > longer than Julia--even the version which uses Lua--so Julia wasn't really > an option for it. > > At any rate, Julia is slowly gaining similar functionality. > > Cheers! > Kevin > > > On Friday, January 16, 2015, Simon Danisch <sdani...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Thought this could be interesting to some: >> http://torch.ch/ >> Would have been cool if they had used Julia instead of LUAjit =) >> And OpenCL, instead of going for the Vendor lock -.- >> Nevertheless, it's an interesting library! >> >> Best, >> Simon >> >
