fromscratchtoml

https://markroxor.github.io/fromscratchtoml/

An intuitive machine learning library for beginners, in python.
This library is my code base for storing code of popular machine learning algorithms from scratch while I understand them, keeping code-readability and simplicity over efficiency.

CUDA Support (Unstable!)

Cupy is used to take advantage of cuda computing of NVIDIA GPUs.

CuPy is an open-source matrix library accelerated with NVIDIA CUDA. It also uses CUDA-related libraries including cuBLAS, cuDNN, cuRand, cuSolver, cuSPARSE, cuFFT and NCCL to make full use of the GPU architecture.

The backend for mathematical computations can be switched using -

   import fromscratchtoml
   fromscratchtoml.use("numpy") # for numpy backend (default)
   fromscratchtoml.use("cupy")  # or cupy backend

Since Travis (cloud CI) doesn't support cupy. Cupy must be installed manually using -
pip install cupy

NOTE - To mantain consistency with the backend, it is recommended to use import fromscratchtoml as np everywhere in your code.

Installation

Python pypi

You can install from pypi.

pip install fromscratchtoml

This is the most stable build.

Compiling manually

If you are interested in installing the most bleeding edge but not too stable version. You can install from source -

git clone https://github.com/markroxor/fromscratchtoml.git
pip install -r requirements.txt  
python setup.py install

Tutorials and support

Well documented API usage is available at pydoc
Feature requests and bugs reports can be tracked on issue tracker.

Motivation

Good programmers know what to write. Great ones know what to rewrite (and reuse). While I don't claim to be a great programmer, I try to imitate one. An important trait of the great ones is constructive laziness. They know that you get an A not for effort but for results, and that it's almost always easier to start from a good partial solution than from nothing at all. Linus Torvalds, for example, didn't actually try to write Linux from scratch. Instead, he started by reusing code and ideas from Minix, a tiny Unix-like operating system for PC clones. Eventually all the Minix code went away or was completely rewritten—but while it was there, it provided scaffolding for the infant that would eventually become Linux.
~ The Cathedral Bazaar

The Game of Life (or simply Life) is not a game in the conventional sense. There are no players, and no winning or losing. Once the "pieces" are placed in the starting position, the rules determine everything that happens later. Nevertheless, Life is full of surprises! In most cases, it is impossible to look at a starting position (or pattern) and see what will happen in the future. The only way to find out is to follow the rules of the game.
~ Paul Callahan

What I cannot create, I do not understand.
~ Richard Feynman

DISCLAIMER:

I created this library while understanding the coding aspects of the machine learning algorithms from various sources and blogs around the internet. A non-exhaustive list of those resources can be found at the Wiki page.

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