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> In practice, scientific computing users rely on the NumPy family of libraries e.g. NumPy, SciPy, TensorFlow, PyTorch, CuPy, JAX, etc.. this is a somewhat con
by college_physics 4y ago
> In practice, scientific computing users rely on the NumPy family of libraries e.g. NumPy, SciPy, TensorFlow, PyTorch, CuPy, JAX, etc..
this is a somewhat confusing statement. most of these libraries actually don't rely on numpy. e.g. tensorflow ultimately wraps c++/eigen tensors [0] and numpy enters somewhere higher up in their python integration
[0] https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/blob/master/tensorflow/core/framework/tensor.h https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/blob/master/tensorf...