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Re:Elixir and Machine Learning: Nx v0.1 released by losvedir on Thursday January 06, 2022 @08:31AM (#29823301)
Very impressive library! Is it still in the developmental stage, or do you know of anyone using it for real yet?

Also, I love livebook! I keep a tab with it open and it has replaced my use of iex. Can you talk a little bit about how you decided to embark on building that, too? An ML library and framework is a big enough job already, how did you decide to add Livebook to the list?

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Re:Elixir and Machine Learning: Nx v0.1 released by josevalim on Thursday January 06, 2022 @09:22AM (#29823819)
This release means we are getting closer to prod usage but Nx requires one of the existing compilers/backends to shine. So I am hoping we will see production uses once we officially release Torchx/EXLA packages too.

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Curiously, I had two ideas for the name Livebook:

1. An interactive book to teach LiveView. LiveView is a new approach for developing web apps and I thought it could be worth exploring different non-traditional ways of teaching it too!

2. Livebook as code notebooks (what we got!)

It just feels a great fit for the platform, considering Phoenix, LiveView, Distributed Erlang, etc. So why not? :) And I am curious to see if and how we can contribute new ideas to the already extensive ecosystem of code notebooks!

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