Agree that MXNet, the combination of Minerva and CXXNet, which can be interpreted as mixed-net, is hard to be pronounced. But rebranding a name is a very big decision. We need a very carefully designed marketing plan for it.
A choice is that we can gradually refer MXNet as a backend, and talk more about the frontend Gluon. On Wed, Apr 11, 2018 at 12:16 PM, Thomas DELTEIL <thomas.delte...@gmail.com> wrote: > FWIW Brainscript is actually a network definition language: > https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cognitive-toolkit/ > BrainScript-Network-Builder > > > > Thomas > > > 2018-04-11 12:13 GMT-07:00 Chiyuan Zhang <plus...@gmail.com>: > > > IIRC CNTK renamed to something like brainscript which does not seem to be > > very successful publicity campaign? > > > > Chiyuan > > > > On Wed, Apr 11, 2018 at 10:18 AM Chris Olivier <cjolivie...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > > > Should we consider renaming MXNet to something more "friendly"? > > > > > > IMHO, I think this may be related to adoption problems. > > > > > > MXNet, CMTK -- both seem sort of sterile and hard to use, don't they? > > > > > > Tensorflow, PyTorch, Caffe -- sound cool. > > > > > -- > > Semt ftom m ipohne > > >
