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Re:Why physicists still use Fortran (2015) by jxcole on Sunday October 15, 2017 @08:23PM (#15480100)
I don't think you understand Tensorflow. Tensorflow compiles tensor mathematics into a shader that can be run on the gpu. This is usually faster than acpu computation.
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Re:Why physicists still use Fortran (2015) by noobermin on Sunday October 15, 2017 @09:04PM (#15480214)
Alright. I imagine the shader compiler too isn't written in python, is it?
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