2019-03-28 Thursday - TensorFlow-2.0.0-alpha (TF 2.0 Alpha)

Today I spotted Cassie Kozyrkov's article on Hackernoon (she's Chief Decision Scientist at Google, Inc) :

• TensorFlow is dead, long live TensorFlow!
• https://hackernoon.com/tensorflow-is-dead-long-live-tensorflow-49d3e975cf04
• " TensorFlow has just gone full Keras"
• "Keras is a specification for building models layer-by-layer that works with multiple machine learning frameworks (so it’s not a TF thing)"
• "Going forward, Keras will be the high level API for TensorFlow and it’s extended so that you can use all the advanced features of TensorFlow directly from tf.keras." 

Here are some of the relevant 2.0 documentation resources

• https://www.tensorflow.org/alpha 
• https://www.tensorflow.org/install 

• $ pip install tensorflow==2.0.0-alpha0

• https://www.tensorflow.org/install/gpu
• https://www.tensorflow.org/alpha/tutorials/keras
• https://www.tensorflow.org/alpha/guide/effective_tf2
• https://www.tensorflow.org/alpha/tutorials/quickstart/beginner

35 videos from the TensorFlow Dev Summit 2019 (March 6th and 7th at the Google Event Center in Sunnyvale, CA.), touching specifically on TF 2.0, are available here:

• https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQY2H8rRoyvzoUYI26kHmKSJBedn3SQuB

TensorFlow Youtube Channel

• https://www.youtube.com/tensorflow

I also took a moment to upgrade to the recent Python 3.7.3 release (from 3.7.2)

• https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-373/
• Note: If you are installing on Windows 10, be sure to use one  of the x64 installers (e.g. Windows x86-64 executable installer)
• https://docs.python.org/3.7/