Introducing Nx - José Valim | Lambda Days 2021
Why Hacker News recommends it
Recommended in Elixir and machine learning threads as the introduction to what Nx makes possible.
What it is
Jose Valim introduces Nx, the project bringing numerical computing to Elixir, covering multi-dimensional tensors, automatic differentiation and JIT compilation to CPU and GPU.
Recommended by 2 HN commenters across 2 different months, 2021 to 2021.
What Hacker News said
Recommends rmetzler · 2021-03 · on “Caramel: An OCaml for the Erlang VM”
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]
Recommends bfm · 2021-04 · on “Axon: A library for creating neural networks in Elixir”
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]
Cites Rich_Morin · 2021-07 · on “Ray: A Distributed Framework for Emerging AI Applications”
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...