José Valim visits and finally publicly reveals what Project Nx is! He and others have been working on it for 3 months and he's finally ready to unveil it. José will speak more about it at the LambdaDays conference, demonstrating it with code and announcing the release and availability of the OpenSource code.

Nx stands for "Numerical Elixir". The Nx project brings a unique numerical mode to Elixir along with GPU support. This important work lays the foundation for a powerful new era with data science in Elixir! Listen in as Jose discusses the details of how this works, how it came about, the goals of the project, what this means for the community, and what comes next.

Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/34

Elixir Community News

https://elixirforum.com/t/introducing-elixirls-the-elixir-language-server/5857/122 – ElixirLS version 0.6.3 released
https://github.com/elixir-lsp/elixir-ls/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md – ElixirLS Changelog
https://codesync.global/conferences/code-beam-v-america-2021/ – CodeBEAM American conference dates March 10-12
https://hexdocs.pm/oban/changelog.html#2-4-0-2021-01-26 – Oban 2.4.0 released
https://twitter.com/sorentwo/status/1354099475191652352 – Oban performance improvement charts
https://github.com/wintermeyer/phx_tailwind_generators – Phoenix TailwindCSS generator
https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix/pull/4191 – Phoenix JavaScript gets more modern with Phoenix ES modules
https://fullstackphoenix.com/boilerplates/new – Feedback! We learned about the site FullStackPhoenix which helps you start new projects already setup with several options for how to configure it.

Do you have some Elixir news to share? Tell us at @ThinkingElixir or email at show@thinkingelixir.com

Discussion Resources

Nx stands for "Numerical Elixir"
https://elixirforum.com/t/anyone-who-wants-to-speculate-about-this-tweet-from-jose/35772/68 – A great text summary of the announcement found on ElixirForum.
https://twitter.com/josevalim/status/1356880707474370560 – José Valim released the new Nx logo during our recording. The cute animal is a Numbat!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numbat
https://github.com/erlang/otp/pull/2890 – José's pull request to add 16-bit floats in bitstrings to OTP
https://numpy.org/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Softmax_function
https://pragprog.com/titles/smgaelixir/genetic-algorithms-in-elixir/
https://elixirforum.com/t/pelemay-formerly-hastega-challenge-for-gpgpu-on-elixir/22986
https://erlang.org/doc/man/erl_nif.html#dirty_nifs – Information on Dirty NIFs
https://twitter.com/bcardarella
https://www.tensorflow.org/xla
https://tvm.apache.org/
https://mlir.llvm.org/
https://github.com/google/jax
https://julialang.org/
https://www.lambdadays.org/lambdadays2021/jose-valim – LambdaDays speaker page
https://www.lambdadays.org/lambdadays2021#programme – José speaks on day 2
Promo code for 15% off LambdaDays tickets! Just use "thinkingelixir15"
https://twitter.com/josevalim
https://twitter.com/sean_moriarity
https://twitter.com/elixirlang

Guest Information

https://twitter.com/josevalim – on Twitter
https://github.com/josevalim – on Github
https://dashbit.co/ – Dashbit website and blog

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34: José Valim reveals Project Nx

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34: José Valim reveals Project Nx