wantrepeneur

Then why doesn't he give people fellowships to become apprentice plumbers?

A lot of people like Torch. I haven't looked at pylearn2 in a while, but that might be good too. Then there are a few researcher libraries with limited documentation. Nitish Srivastava has his DeepNet library and George Dahl has gdbn and there are certainly a few others too. Who knows, maybe people will start contributing documentation.

I would probably recommend Torch at this point. The incentives don't exist for the experts to make really good open source projects and spend all the time required maintaining them and helping people with them.

That library looks like garbage. The website describes convnets as a "type of restricted Boltzmann machine." How can anyone trust a library with that level of misinformation?

I don't know what papers you are reading, but you seem to have a very distorted view of the literature. How do results on image net, production speech recognition datasets, language modeling, and high resolution satellite images fit the pattern you allege? Once again HN comment quality is depressingly low when it comes to machine learning topics. But I guess to be fair the description in the original link is very confused as well and misunderstands the conclusions of the paper.

Humans are not a general intelligence.