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It's a community-driven project, a Python take of Torch http://torch.ch/. Several folks involved in development and use so far (a non-exhaustive list):

* Facebook * Twitter * NVIDIA * SalesForce * ParisTech * CMU * Digital Reasoning * INRIA * ENS

The maintainers work at Facebook AI Research

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Not only that, but it appears to use the same core c libray (TH) as Lua torch.

we actually share the same git-subtree between Lua and Python variants. TH, THNN, THC, THCUNN are shared.

I have been running in the back of my mind the idea of attempting a julialang interface to torch for a few weeks now, using the ccall interface: http://docs.julialang.org/en/release-0.5/manual/calling-c-an.... Do you have any thoughts / recommendations w'r't' that? (This would be more of a fun / weekend(s) project for me than anything else) My goal would be to have the tensors override the .* and * operators as used here: https://gist.github.com/divbit/ec57ad2f1989bf13aecdf9e1e1056...

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