Very interesting, but as a daily practitioner I am skeptical.<p>First, this is a <i>lot</i> of code! As a C++ machine learning programmer, I am impressed as I know the pain (someone explains why, see comment <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5613797" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5613797</a> ).<p>Second, it contains a version of Blas and ublas as well as LBFGS and more, much more, coded from scratch as it seems. This seems too much for an ML library, and a lot to maintain.<p>This makes me skeptical of performances and maintenance of the code, but it would be fairer to try it first.<p>Still very impressed.
This looks awesome. I've been itching to try out some ideas I have after having gone through Bishop's book, but I've been hesitant to write the algorithms from scratch. Now I'll have to decide between learning matlab or a library such as this.