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Microsoft has released its Computational Network Toolkit (CNTK) through GitHub on an open source licence, with the stated aim of speeding up artificial intelligence research. Although Redmond had hosted the CNTK on its own CodePlex site in April of last year, it was held there under an academic licence, freezing out amateur …

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  2. Spacedman

    And is it written in one of their non-portable "sharpie" languages?

    Oh my. Its C++. There's a Makefile with "Linux/GCC build..." in it. Pick me up off the floor please.

    Now we just have to decide how to pronounce CNTK....

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Good point if they pronounce the K silently there could be problems.

      1. Brewster's Angle Grinder Silver badge
    2. JDX Gold badge

      C# is eminently portable. Rather surprised it is in C++ - is it cross-platform C++?

  3. phil dude
    Coat

    gpu/cpu?

    So they support X gpu/cpus.

    Can't I just "git clone" and make it support Y?

    I mean Y*>>X?

    P.

    * Where Y ~= 105

  4. Anonymous Coward
    Trollface

    Didn't they make a film about this?

    "The slurping rate grew exponentially until WIndows 10 Skynet Edition with Bing(tm) achieved total information awareness..."

    1. Nolveys
      Terminator

      Re: Didn't they make a film about this?

      No one will know what to make of it when a cyborg who looks like Arnold Schwarzenegger storms a police station, killing everyone in his path with an automatic weapon, repeating again and again "It looks like you're writing a letter! It looks like you're writing a letter! It looks like you're writing a letter!..."

  5. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    If you want slow...

    ... use Excel 97 to emulate a neural net. I much prefer a toolkit and it already has CUDA addressed in the code I've looked at. Thank you MS Research.

    1. phil dude
      Coat

      Re: If you want slow...

      libreoffice/calc already has OPENCL/CUDA acceleration...

      P.

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