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Re:Deep learning experiments in OCaml by mlthoughts2018 on Sunday September 23, 2018 @08:23PM (#18054151)
I just looked up your paper with Nie and indeed you’re just using a particular set of patterns with multiple dispatch and metaprogramming. Nothing is fundamentally different than other ways of implementing the same thing that don’t rely on parametric abstraction.

You seem not to know about numba and Cython given that you responded with a comment about scipy using FORTRAN, which is not relevant. You can do the exact same multiple dispatch patterns with Cython fused types, and with several dispatch techniques in numba.

Look, I’m glad people like your library. It doesn’t change the larger points about this type of design pattern being premature abstraction.

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