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52:59 · 26K views · Feb 19, 2021
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 in Elixir and machine learning threads as the introduction to what Nx makes possible.
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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
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
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...