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Introducing Nx - José Valim | Lambda Days 2021

Introducing Nx - José Valim | Lambda Days 2021 on HackerTube: recommended by 2 Hacker News commenters across 2 separate months, 2021.

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Jose Valim introduces Nx, the project bringing numerical computing to Elixir, covering multi-dimensional tensors, automatic differentiation and JIT compilation to CPU and GPU.

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Recommended in Elixir and machine learning threads as the introduction to what Nx makes possible.

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“I recommend you watching José’s talk introducing Elixir Nx”
— bfm, Apr 2021, in “Axon: A library for creating neural networks in Elixir”

What HN commenters said

3 Hacker News comments link this video. Each one links back to its thread.

bfmApr 2021Recommends

If you have not been following the work José and Sean have been doing lately, I recommend you watching José’s talk introducing Elixir Nx ▶ this video

in “Axon: A library for creating neural networks in Elixir” · View on HN

rmetzlerMar 2021Recommends

Lots of people mention Nx and of course I want to do the same but with a link to a youtube video, in case you wonder what's possible currently. ▶ this video

in “Caramel: An OCaml for the Erlang VM” · View on HN

Rich_MorinJul 2021Cites it

Although it's early days, José Valim and some other folks are working on adding AI-related capabilities to Elixir and the (Erlang) BEAM. See "Introducing Nx" ( ▶ this video ) for an intro. Given that they already have a robust Actor model as a base to work from, it occurs to me that they may be able to use some of Ray's ideas as they go along...

in “Ray: A Distributed Framework for Emerging AI Applications” · View on HN

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Functional programmingMachine learning & deep learningelixirnxtensorsautomatic differentiationmachine learning