Running Theano on EC2

1 · Erik Bernhardsson · Aug. 19, 2014, 4 a.m.
Inspired by Sander Dieleman’s internship at Spotify, I’ve been playing around with deep learning using Theano. Theano is this Python package that lets you define symbolic expressions (cool), does automatic differentiation (really cool), and compiles it down into bytecode to run on a CPU/GPU (super cool). It’s built by Yoshua Bengio’s deep learning team up in Montreal. This isn’t going to be a long blog post – I just wanted to share two pro tips: I was messing around for hours trying to get Thea...