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astrange on Feb 13, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Swift for TensorFlow Shuts Down

> Swift was a weird choice for statically typed TensorFlow, being only popular on the platform, that does not have GPU/TPU support in TensorFlow, which is, basically, a requirement for any serious work. The fact, that they had to fork the compiler did not help either.

This is available now (not sure if it's in mainline).

https://blog.tensorflow.org/2020/11/accelerating-tensorflow-...

lostmsu on Feb 13, 2021 [–]

M1 is not a good replacement for Nvidia GPU, especially a professional one.

astrange on Feb 14, 2021 | [–]

This is Metal support for Tensorflow, not M1 support. It works on AMD, and it'd work on Nvidia if they updated their drivers.

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