Anyone who wants to speculate about this tweet from José

eksperimental · February 3, 2021, 12:30pm

It is not in master yet

eksperimental · February 3, 2021, 1:03pm

It even has its own mascot,
https://twitter.com/josevalim/status/1355188432486731784

It must be a big thing then.

eksperimental · February 3, 2021, 1:15pm

My speculations are that “N” stands for Native, and “X” is for EliXir.
I expect this new thing to let us define NIFs from within Elixir.

axelson · February 3, 2021, 6:51pm

Hmmm, I wonder if it’ll be similar to clixir by @cdegroot

github.com

cdegroot/uderzo_poncho/blob/master/clixir_example/lib/example.ex

defmodule Example do
  @moduledoc """
  This is a very minimal hello world Clixir example.
  """
  use Clixir

  # Include the header file indicated. This expands to a full
  # name of "c_src/example.hx"
  @clixir_header "example"

  @doc """
  Greet with the message.

  There will be an Elixir function in this module named `hello` that calls out
  to the generated C code to do the printf.
  """
  def_c hello(message) do
    cdecl "char *": message

    # Note that you don't want to send _anything_ to stdout, as that is the response

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kokolegorille · February 3, 2021, 7:19pm

Now I have two questions

What is Nx?
What animal is this?

outlog · February 3, 2021, 7:35pm

https://twitter.com/josevalim/status/1356880707474370560

lud · February 4, 2021, 10:22am

So it has something to do with Numbers.

Eiji · February 4, 2021, 10:46am

btw. Hope that Numbat which is endangered specie was not choosed because of that fact.

kokolegorille · February 4, 2021, 3:22pm

Numpy in Elixir?

patrickdm · February 4, 2021, 3:47pm

bdarla · February 4, 2021, 3:58pm

This seems a very promising direction! I hope we will get more details soon!

hauleth · February 5, 2021, 8:02am

Probably yes, as it seems from my last talk with Jose about the topic.

hubertlepicki · February 5, 2021, 9:36am

Do you think it’s allowing to use NumPy from Elixir or building a framework to allow building NumPy alternative in Elixir or something in betweens?

hauleth · February 5, 2021, 9:56am

I think it will be the latter - set of NIF-like bindings and Julia-like precompiler for Elixir that will allow writing number-crunching operations in Elixir.

hubertlepicki · February 5, 2021, 10:06am

Yeah this will come in handy. There’s a surprising number of “normal” projects where some number crunching is required and it’s PITA always to push it off to external tools / environments. Alright I think we cracked it.

eksperimental · February 6, 2021, 1:34pm

I think you have nailed it @kokolegorille

The name of the mascot
The twits about ML/DL
The mails about Tensorflow
The addition of defn/defnp
the N in the logo

Everything indicates that it

PJextra · February 6, 2021, 5:35pm

Using GPU instead of CPU?..

lud · February 7, 2021, 2:07pm

I remember reading that there would be a podcast with all the answers airing 2 of February. Is that available somewhere?

kokolegorille · February 7, 2021, 2:12pm

Airing the 2 of February, but available around 9 of February.

lud · February 7, 2021, 2:20pm

I remembered the 2/ and I really cannot get used to the month/day format