What I wish someone had told me about tensor computation libraries

Re:What I wish someone had told me about tensor computation ... by dragandj on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @06:52PM (#25437084)

If only C++ supported interactive REPL and the rest of Clojure/Lisp goodies, that might be possible. However, the code is CLOSELY related to the actual CUDA/C++ api. It's a lot simpler, concise, and everything, but I explain everything so that you can use the relevant parts with cuDNN and DNNL APIs in any language that you're most proficient in.

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Re:What I wish someone had told me about tensor computation ... by dekhn on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @07:30PM (#25437435)

Does Cling C++ interpreter do what you want? https://github.com/root-project/cling

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Re:What I wish someone had told me about tensor computation ... by dragandj on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @07:44PM (#25437553)

Clojure does what I want.

Perhaps Cling can do something, or not, but I guess that's up to people who prefer Cling to find out and utilize.

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Re:What I wish someone had told me about tensor computation ... by patrec on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @03:03AM (#25440158)

Have you used it? When I last tried Cling not that long ago, it wasn't even alpha quality software and given that it has been around for a while, my default assumption would be that this hasn't suddenly improved.

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Re:What I wish someone had told me about tensor computation ... by dekhn on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @10:04AM (#25443365)

it's used by ROOT at CERN, so it's unlikely it's "alpha quality software" since it's being used for production science at scale.

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Re:What I wish someone had told me about tensor computation ... by godelski on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @08:47PM (#25438036)

Thanks! That's helpful to know. I have no experience with Clojure/Lisp but a fair amount with C/C++ (minor in CUDA).

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Re:What I wish someone had told me about tensor computation ... by dragandj on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @09:17PM (#25438222)

Please read a few of tutorials from my blog. Most programmers in your situation told me that they had no problems following it; it only gradually introduces advanced Clojure concepts, and code snippets are usually extremely short + completely executable interactively as-is.

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Re:What I wish someone had told me about tensor computation ... by josh2600 on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @10:19PM (#25438661)

This is a great site. A few pieces of unsolicited feedback from a marketing perspective:

* Always have the call to action repeated at the bottom of the page; you did a great job having it above the fold, but I got to the end and had to scroll back up to express intent. That's a flowbreaking design.

* This is purely stylistic, but I strongly prefer the first letter of each line to be capitalized. I find the stylistic inconsistency around capitalization offputting.

* You have pretty nicely made docs, consider making the link to view the sample chapters a clickable picture of the first diagram-page in your chapter.

Thanks for making this!

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Re:What I wish someone had told me about tensor computation ... by godelski on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @12:40AM (#25439468)

Thanks! I have this slated in my to-do tabs (which I actually do lol). Just looking through it looks like you did a lot of work and took a lot of time for this so just wanted to say thanks.

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