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A tensor is a mathematical object that has a lot of uses beyond general relativity, of course. It's a little tricky to visualize (I think there are good YouTub

A tensor is a mathematical object that has a lot of uses beyond general relativity, of course. It's a little tricky to visualize (I think there are good YouTube videos) but tensors can be thought of as multidimensional arrays, and also the whole tensor algebra can be done in terms of multidimensional array operations. So reasoning about a neural network weights and operations in terms of tensors makes sense and I guess that's what the name Tensorflow comes from.

samstave 3y ago
Yes, but your explaination helped me to better understand the other types of tensors in a way I can 'grok' it - as opposed to trying to be at the level of some google quant or whatever with ML understandings of weights. It helped my put my own internal visualizations to the understanding. and I had a weird peripheral memory on this from a thought I had whilst driving in 1999 where I was thinking of tensors in this way, but I didnt know what I was just daydreaming about... but apparently, it was einsteins tensors coupled with information theory - and while to me it was a pedestrians take on the premise - it turns out that that day dream was correct! And it all ties back to when I was ten years old and meditating on the Mind of God -- It all tied into one another - and you gave me some cord to pull these experiences together with understanding which I havent had in 40 years... so that was nice. Thanks. Anyone else recall daydreams from their past where their later understanding was confurmed, even though you were just "daydreaming at the time"?