Disclaimer: This piece is written anonymously. The names of a few particular companies are mentioned, but as common examples only.
This is a short write-up on things that I wish I'd known and considered before joining a private company (aka startup, aka unicorn in some cases). I'm not trying to make the case that you should never join a private company, but the power imbalance between founder and employee is extreme, and that potential candidates would
Python is the primary language in which TensorFlow models are typically developed and trained. TensorFlow does have bindings for other programming languages. These bindings have the low-level primitives that are required to build a more complete API, however, lack much of the higher-level API richness of the Python bindings, particularly for defining the model structure.
This gist demonstrates taking a model (a TensorFlow graph) created by a Python program and running the training loop in a C program.
Python is the primary language in which TensorFlow models are typically developed and trained. TensorFlow does have bindings for other programming languages. These bindings have the low-level primitives that are required to build a more complete API, however, lack much of the higher-level API richness of the Python bindings, particularly for defining the model structure.
This file demonstrates taking a model (a TensorFlow graph) created by a Python program and running the training loop in C++.