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> Though APL may strike some as a strange language of choice for deep learning

I've actually spent the better part of last year wondering why we _haven't_ been using APL for deep learning. And actually I've been wondering why we don't just use APL for everything that operates over arrays, like data lakes and such.

Honestly, APL is probably a good fit for compilers. I seem to remember a guy who had some tree-wrangling APL scheme, and could execute his compiler on a GPU. But I can't find it now.



I believe the tree-wrangler you mentioned is Aaron Hsu, author of the Co-dfns APL "compiler" that Trap uses.

Here are some videos related to his work: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDU0iEj6f8duXzmgnlGX4...

Co-dfns was most recently discussed on Hacker News 3 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40928450


> I've actually spent the better part of last year wondering why we _haven't_ been using APL for deep learning.

JAX?




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