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16 mentions on Hacker News by 13 people: 2 stories, 14 comments · first 2014-06-22 · latest 2026-06-25

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  1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torch_(machine_learning) http://torch.ch/ https://github.com/torch/torch7
    comment by LargoLasskhyfv · 2026-06-25 · in LuaJIT 3.0 proposed syntax extensions
  2. …candidates would be torch7 [1], but it is somewhat married to the Lua API which drives it. [1]: https://github.com/torch/torch7
    comment by ninjin · 2022-11-22 · in TinyGL 0.4.1
  3. With https://github.com/torch/torch7 on https://luajit.org/luajit.html maybe?
    comment by LargoLasskhyfv · 2021-02-20 · in Mars becomes the 2nd planet that has more computers running Linux than Windows
  4. …and LuaJIT in particular are much superior to Python for Deep Learning. [1] http://torch.ch/ [2] https://github.com/torch/torch7
    comment by lr1970 · 2020-12-16 · in What I wish someone had told me about tensor computation libraries
  5. Lua torch has been dead for a while https://github.com/torch/torch7 . pytorch doesn't use any Lua.
    comment by mlevental · 2019-10-10 · in PyTorch Mobile
  6. …mentions: > Torch is not in active developement Is there a maintained torch7 repl somewhere? [1] https://github.com/torch/torch7
    comment by justinmk · 2018-10-30 · in A Look at the Design of Lua
  7. …Torch. You would just create a small language to compile to lua and then have that run in Torch. https://github.com/torch/torch7 http://racket-lang.org
    comment by zitterbewegung · 2018-02-15 · in Fnl: zero-overhead Lisp syntax for Lua
  8. …[4] and MXNET [5] are Apache 2. [1] https://github.com/caffe2/caffe2/blob/master/PATENTS [2] https://github.com/torch/torch7/blob/master/COPYRIGHT.txt [3] https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch/blob/master/LICENSE [4]…
    comment by boulos · 2017-07-16 · in Apache Foundation disallows use of the Facebook “BSD+Patent” license
  9. it's the same license file as https://github.com/torch/torch7 and http://torch.ch The C libraries are shared among the Lua and Python variants
    comment by smhx · 2017-01-18 · in PyTorch – Tensors and Dynamic neural networks in Python
  10. There's a thread at https://github.com/torch/torch7/pull/287 of people who have managed to install on Windows, and a wiki page at https://github.com/torch/torch7/wiki/Windows , which is looking pretty comprehensive :-)
    comment by hughperkins · 2016-09-06 · in Optimized-Torch – Torch installation in a self-contained folder
  11. …me some advice: is the AMD route viable? [1] https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/issues/22 [2] https://github.com/torch/torch7/wiki/Cheatsheet#opencl
    comment by mastazi · 2016-05-15 · in Setting Up a Deep Learning Machine from Scratch
  12. …few examples on how to (almost) replicate some of Google's neural network models on Imagenet. Check https://github.com/torch/torch7/wiki/Cheatsheet#demos .
    comment by xtacy · 2015-06-18 · in Inceptionism: Going Deeper into Neural Networks
  13. Sure, the best way to get attention is to open an issue on github.com/torch/torch7 (that way you get the attention of all the core developers). If you'd like to ask something more discrete, I'd suggest you email one of the four here:…
    comment by smhx · 2014-06-23 · in Torch7 – Scientific computing for LuaJIT
  14. …I’ve tried to make people aware of it, mostly by consolidating everything torch to this one page: https://github.com/torch/torch7/wiki/Cheatsheet What about Julia? I like Julia a lot, and it’s definitely cool, but the packages for NN and…
    comment by smhx · 2014-06-22 · in Torch7 – Scientific computing for LuaJIT