Where is the D deep learning library?

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On Monday, 27 June 2016 at 18:01:54 UTC, Jack Stouffer wrote:
> On Monday, 27 June 2016 at 15:31:07 UTC, Guillaume Piolat wrote:
>> Well I get the manpower thing, everything we do is quite 
>> labour-intensive. I'm just curious nobody started such an 
>> effort (but there was with DlangScience, gamedev, web...).
>
> D doesn't even have the building blocks in D code. Ndslice and 
> the upcoming BLAS in D are nessesary steps if we want a 
> idiomatic D machine learning library. And that's just the 
> foundational work.
>
>> You don't need to match the manpower and stability of the 
>> established solution to make something useful. Perhaps there 
>> could be something distinctive enough to make it attractive?
>
> Unfortunately, academics (who are usually the target audience 
> for these libraries) are very set in their ways. You'll need 
> something that surpasses the functionality of the current 
> solutions and is just as easy to use in order for it to catch 
> on :/

It should be added that for the development library "mir" where 
the upcoming BLAS in D will be hosted, we have plans to integrate 
also building blocks for ML. In fact Ilya already pushed an 
online LDA algorithm [1].
At the moment we lack the manpower to focus more on this, but any 
help is of course appreciated ;-)

See this issue for details:
https://github.com/libmir/mir/issues/166

[1] http://docs.mir.dlang.io/latest/mir_model_lda_hoffman.html