By: JuliaLang - The Julia programming language

Re-posted from: https://julialang.org/blog/2018/08/GSoC2018-speech-recognition/

GSoC 2018 and Speech Recognition for the Flux Model Zoo: The Conclusion | Here we are on the other end of Google Summer of Code 2018. It has been a challenging and educational experience, and I wouldn't have it any other way. I am thankful to the Julia community, and especially my mentor @MikeInnes (https://github.com/mikeinnes), for supporting me through this. I've learn…

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By: JuliaLang - The Julia programming language

Re-posted from: https://julialang.org/blog/2018/08/adding-newer-features-and-speeding-up-convolutions-in-flux/

GSoC 2018: Adding Newer Features and Speeding up Convolutions in Flux | Over the summer I have been working at improving the Computer Vision capabilities of Flux. My specific line of work was to add newer models to the Flux model-zoo, implement some new features and also improve the speed of the previous layers. Specifically, I achieved a 18-fold speed up…

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By: JuliaLang - The Julia programming language

Re-posted from: https://julialang.org/blog/2018/08/union-splitting/

Union-splitting: what it is, and why you should care | Among those who follow Julia's development closely, one of the (many) new features causing great excitement is something called "Union-splitting."…

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