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Soumith Chintala: PyTorch

The Gradient: Perspectives on AI

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How I Got Started Helping Out With Torch in the First Place

I was working on this machine learning framework called EBE Learn in 2010 and 2011. I saw Torch the next year because one of the authors, Clem of Rabe, was visiting the lab at NYU. They didn't have any compile time, it was so easy and fast to get rid of fun. And then I started just replying to people on the Torch forums. So that's how I started maintaining Forge. Once you become a maintainer, it's kind of a responsibility. You're like really focusing and growing the ecosystem as well. It's not just the code stuff. It's like everything, like go evangelize it, give talks.

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