Amazon open-sources its own deep learning software, DSSTNE

Amazon has suddenly made a remarkable entrance into the world of open-source software for deep learning. Yesterday the ecommerce company quietly released a library called DSSTNE on GitHub under an open-source Apache license. Deep learning involves training artificial neural networks on lots of data and then getting them to make inferences about new data. Several technology companies are doing it -- heck, it even got some air time recently in the show "Silicon Valley." And there are already several other deep learning frameworks to choose from, including Google's TensorFlow.