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You're a pile of tensors!
by BLKNSLVR 2mo ago
You're a pile of tensors!
- ImHereToVote 2mo agoFermions are just matrices, which are just tensors.
- eru 2mo agoI'm still disappointed the ML people talk of tensors, but I barely ever even see them use a (proper) tensor product. It's all just matrix multiplication at most.
- omegastick 2mo agoShock horror: different subfields have different terminology.
- mort96 2mo agoI mean it's not really different terminology, matrices are order 2 tensors so we're all in agreement that they're technically doing math on tensors. It's just weird to call it tensors when you exclusively operate on matrices.
- philipallstar 2mo agoHeadcanon: tensor just sounded cooler - and it is cooler - when Tensorflow was invented, and it's stuck around.
- eru 2mo agoYou are probably right. I blame the Matrix movies for this: they made matrix sound cool for a while, and then oversaturation lead to it being less cool.
- philipallstar 2mo agoHah yes I almost wrote that as well. I think it might be exactly that.
- mort96 2mo agoI'm not, actually. Artificial neural networks are inspired by biological neural networks, but they're really quite different.
- stevenhuang 2mo agoIt's an open question whether they're different in a way that actually matters
- wongarsu 2mo agoAnd chemical pathways. LLMs don't experience dopamine