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Introducing Nx - José Valim | Lambda Days 2021

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Functional programmingMachine learning & deep learning

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.

Why Hacker News recommends it

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

  • 2 people recommended it
  • 2 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2021, last 2021

What HN commenters said

  1. “in case you wonder what's possible currently.”

    Shows what Nx makes possible currently

    rmetzler, 2021-03 · Recommendation · in “Caramel: An OCaml for the Erlang VM”

  2. “I recommend you watching José’s talk introducing Elixir Nx”

    Talk introducing Elixir Nx

    bfm, 2021-04 · Recommendation · in “Axon: A library for creating neural networks in Elixir”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: elixir, nx, tensors, automatic differentiation, machine learning

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