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Re: Tile: A New Language for Machine Learning

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Post by deepakkarki »

singularity2001 wrote: post #29
anton_gogolev wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Immediately after you are tasked to maintain said overly-clever and overly-terse code.

What is the name of the language where the whole game of life was literally one line of code? That was the example that convinced me that terseness can be too much. also some physical theories which are summarised as A=F(P) Anterior=Factor(Posterior) , the future is a function of the past. the difference to E=MCC is that the later one actually contains physical entities and that 'Factor' is often not well defined.

I believe it was APL https://dfns.dyalog.com/c_life.htm

Re: Tile: A New Language for Machine Learning

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Post by ram_sankar83 »

singularity2001 wrote: post #29
anton_gogolev wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Immediately after you are tasked to maintain said overly-clever and overly-terse code.

What is the name of the language where the whole game of life was literally one line of code? That was the example that convinced me that terseness can be too much. also some physical theories which are summarised as A=F(P) Anterior=Factor(Posterior) , the future is a function of the past. the difference to E=MCC is that the later one actually contains physical entities and that 'Factor' is often not well defined.

APL?

Re: Tile: A New Language for Machine Learning

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Post by strangecasts »

singularity2001 wrote: post #29
anton_gogolev wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Immediately after you are tasked to maintain said overly-clever and overly-terse code.

What is the name of the language where the whole game of life was literally one line of code? That was the example that convinced me that terseness can be too much. also some physical theories which are summarised as A=F(P) Anterior=Factor(Posterior) , the future is a function of the past. the difference to E=MCC is that the later one actually contains physical entities and that 'Factor' is often not well defined.

There are a couple of esoteric languages explicitly designed with terseness in mind: https://esolangs.org/wiki/Category:Golfing_language

Re: Tile: A New Language for Machine Learning

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Post by hedgehog »

pushingice wrote: post #33
madspindel wrote: post #21

Who is behind Vertex.ai? Could not find any information about it. Is it AMD?

It's a start-up. As of now they are still independent. (Disclaimer: I'm related to their CTO) https://www.linkedin.com/company/17896487/

To clarify, we are independent without any caveat or qualification (I'm the CEO). Our office is in Seattle, if you have questions happy to answer here, on LinkedIn, or by e-mail.

Re: Tile: A New Language for Machine Learning

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Post by FiveDegrees »

Isinlor wrote: post #28
laingc wrote: post #27

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It’s a word play on “Stalingrad”. It’s kind of funny.

If I would name a library after a man who directly ordered to kill your grandparents and grandparents of your colleagues by shooting them in back of their head would you find it funny? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katyn_massacre The man who sent an army to kill and rape people in your country? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_invasion_of_Poland The man who planned to crash a nation by starving it? https://en.wik…

You are of course entirely right. It may be worthwhile to email Siskind or Pearlmutter on the subject. I believe Siskind has a tradition of naming things after brutal dictators, so I imagine it's liable to not amount to much.

Might as well name your VR SDK Holodomor.

Re: Tile: A New Language for Machine Learning

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Post by FiveDegrees »

hedgehog wrote: post #20
FiveDegrees wrote: post #19

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Have you benchmarked Tile against Stalin∇? https://github.com/Functional-AutoDiff/STALINGRAD Page 3: http://barak.pearlmutter.net/papers/ad2016b.pdf

That looks both clever and interesting, do you know if they have published any benchmarks on GPU or other accelerator targets?

Not that I've been able to find.

Re: Tile: A New Language for Machine Learning

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Post by laingc »

Isinlor wrote: post #28
laingc wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It’s a word play on “Stalingrad”. It’s kind of funny.

If I would name a library after a man who directly ordered to kill your grandparents and grandparents of your colleagues by shooting them in back of their head would you find it funny? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katyn_massacre The man who sent an army to kill and rape people in your country? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_invasion_of_Poland The man who planned to crash a nation by starving it? https://en.wik…

You’ve run away with this a bit too far.

Firstly, I am staunchly anti-Stalinist, anti-communist, and anti-socialist. I’ve been to former Soviet states and seen the devastation that Stalin and his ilk wrought.

Secondly, the library is a wordplay on the name of the city (or perhaps the well-known battle) of Stalingrad. That’s already a step removed from being named after Stalin.

Thirdly, stop trying to turn the world into a humourless wasteland. The policing of jokes of questionable taste screams of moral panic.

Re: Tile: A New Language for Machine Learning

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Post by autokad »

apendleton wrote: post #15
autokad wrote: post #10

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it would be more like an SQL for people wanting to do SQL in ML, but its not really what the article is talking about. i need another language to program machine learning in like i need another hole in my head.

But... that's not what this is. It's a tool to make writing device-agnostic ML frameworks easier. Consumers of said frameworks wouldn't even be aware of it.

> " but its not really what the article is talking about."
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