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Introducing Nx - José Valim | Lambda Days 2021

Code Sync · 26.3K views · 2021-02-19 · 52:59

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Overview

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.

Recommended by 2 HN people across 2 months · HN mentions 2021–2021

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bfm · 2021-04 · Recommendation

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 [VIDEO]

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rmetzler · 2021-03 · Recommendation

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. [VIDEO]

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Rich_Morin · 2021-07 · Reference

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" ( [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...

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