polvalente

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   by polvalente 2y ago

   Professionally, I'm working on extending Nx, the Elixir ML framework which I help maintain, for distributed and sharded computing. Should have an working v0 by December! GitHub for the project: https://github.com/elixir
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   by polvalente 2y ago

   Yeap, this is a big one. In Nx we have some facilities for doing zero-copy stuff that only really work if you have, say, Evision and EXLA running on the same OS process. We do have IPC handles that could enable this over, say, ports, but th
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   by polvalente 3y ago

   Does Nx change that mindset in any way?
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   by polvalente 3y ago

   Makes sense! I on the other hand prefer more "human-like" syntax like Python and elixir provide, though I really dislike Python being so sensitive to whitespace (especially tabs vs spaces sensitivity)
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   by polvalente 3y ago

   Could elaborate on this? I'm genuinely curious about what annoys you regarding Elixir specifically.