{"id":34733,"date":"2017-02-21T00:24:25","date_gmt":"2017-02-21T08:24:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/google-gives-everyone-machine-learning-superpowers-with-tensorflow-1-0"},"modified":"2017-06-04T07:12:23","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T14:12:23","slug":"google-gives-everyone-machine-learning-superpowers-with-tensorflow-1-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/google-gives-everyone-machine-learning-superpowers-with-tensorflow-1-0","title":{"rendered":"Google gives everyone machine learning superpowers with TensorFlow 1.0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/google-gives-everyone-machine-learning-superpowers-with-tensorflow-1-0.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It wasn\u2019t that long ago that building and training neural networks was strictly for seasoned computer scientists and grad students. That began to change with the release of a number of open-source <a href=\"https:\/\/www.extremetech.com\/tag\/machine-learning\">machine learning<\/a> frameworks like Theano, Spark ML, Microsoft\u2019s CNTK, and Google\u2019s TensorFlow. Among them, TensorFlow stands out for its powerful, yet accessible, functionality, coupled with the stunning growth of its user base. With this week\u2019s release of TensorFlow 1.0, Google has pushed the frontiers of machine learning further in a number of directions.<\/p>\n<p><b>TensorFlow isn\u2019t just for neural networks anymore<\/b><\/p>\n<p>In an effort to make TensorFlow a more-general machine learning framework, Google has added both built-in Estimator functionality, and support for a number of more traditional machine learning algorithms including K-means, SVM (Support Vector Machines), and Random Forest. While there are certainly other frameworks like SparkML that support those tools, having a solution that can combine them with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.extremetech.com\/tag\/neural-networks\">neural networks<\/a> makes TensorFlow a great option for hybrid problems.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.extremetech.com\/extreme\/244573-google-gives-everyone-machine-learning-superpowers-tensorflow-1-0\">https:\/\/www.extremetech.com\/extreme\/244573-google-gives-ever...ow-1&#45;0<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It wasn\u2019t that long ago that building and training neural networks was strictly for seasoned computer scientists and grad students. That began to change with the release of a number of open-source machine learning frameworks like Theano, Spark ML, Microsoft\u2019s CNTK, and Google\u2019s TensorFlow. Among them, TensorFlow stands out for its powerful, yet accessible, functionality, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information-science","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34733"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58659,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34733\/revisions\/58659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}