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Exceptions are utterly painful for vectorized operations. Goodbye Tensorflow if you say goodbye to NaNs
by dbcurtis 10y ago
Exceptions are utterly painful for vectorized operations. Goodbye Tensorflow if you say goodbye to NaNs
- greglindahl 10y agoThat's an excellent explanation for why scientific computing has been using vectors for a long time and has traditionally faulted when hitting the first NaN. Is there something about Tensorflow that makes propagating NaNs useful? And if so, why are you generalizing from Tensorflow to all "vectorized operations"?
- rtpg 10y agomy guess is that this is a performance argument. If you don't have to check the results, your circuits to do huge vector calculations can be simpler.