It is from scratch or it needs to be expert in another language and main concept of ml?
thanks
shahryarjb
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shawn_leong
Hey @shahryarjb, I haven’t made it through the Preface yet but it does write the following here. Hope it helps
This book is for programmers interested in learning machine learning in Elixir
and programmers with prior Elixir or machine learning experience.
Elixir programmers can pick up and read this book with no prerequisite
knowledge of machine learning, mathematics, or numerical computing, as
this book will teach you everything you need to know from the basics on.
Programmers with machine learning experience but no Elixir experience will
be able to follow along, but some syntactic details and functional concepts
might seem unfamiliar. If you fit into this category, I recommend keeping the
Elixir documentation handy to reference some language details that this book
omits.
If you have no machine learning or Elixir experience, then learning both Elixir
and machine learning at the same time will be a difficult task. Therefore, I
recommend getting familiar with Elixir first and then returning to this book
to learn machine learning in Elixir.
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pragprog
Can’t tell you how much kind words mean to both the author and to helping the book. Thank you!
The social media with this will go live in a few hours
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gbarkhatov
You guys are the best publisher in the whole code world. No matter what book I choose. The content, edits and overall stuff is awesome 
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aayushmau5
jmagnani
conradwt
Hi, I was wondering, is there any coverage of using Apple Silicon for GPU training here? Or ML model conversion Axon/Nx ↔ CoreML or Axon/Nx ↔ TensorFlow?
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AstonJ
Congrats Sean, looks like this is going to be another hit.
A spotlight with Sean has just gone up on Devtalk as well - if you comment or ask a question you get a chance to win one of his books!
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cjbottaro
I’ve been doing software development for 25 years now and have never before felt so lost and behind as when it comes to AI. I tried poking around Hugging Face and just have absolutely no idea what is going on.
Will this book help navigate that world? Also, is it possible to quantize and fine tune foundation models using Elixir and these libraries like Nx and Axon (I’m not even sure I’m using the proper terminology here)?
Thanks for the info!
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josevalim
Creator of Elixir
If it is of any help, I am deep into AI in the last 2 years and I still can’t understand most Hugging Face projects. But I think that’s ok: I also don’t understand most of what is on GitHub, except for things written in certain languages, like Elixir or Erlang.
Therefore, the book will give you similar context. It is unlikely you will fully grasp any Hugging Face model, but there are certain models, architectures, and problems that will make a lot more sense once you read it.
Unfortunately there is no quantization at the moment but we are working on it. You can fine-tune models and one of the chapters discuss it, but you will most likely need a GPU and that’s one particular area we want to further improve the UX on.
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