9 Things You Should Know About TensorFlow

This morning I found myself summarizing my favorite bits from a talk that I enjoyed at Google Cloud Next in San Francisco, What's New with TensorFlow? Then I thought about it for a moment and couldn't see a reason not to share my super-short summary with you (except maybe that you might not watch the video -- you totally should check it out, the speaker is awesome) so here goes… TensorFlow is a machine learning framework that might be your new best friend if you have a lot of data and/or you're after the state-of-the-art in AI: deep learning. It's not a data science Swiss Army Knife, it's the industrial lathe… which means you can probably stop reading if all you want to do is put a regression line through 20-by-2 spreadsheet. But if big is what you're after, get excited. TensorFlow has been used to go hunting for new planets, prevent blindness by helping doctors screen for diabetic retinopathy, and help save forests by alerting authorities to signs of illegal deforestation activity.