[HN Gopher] AI Researcher wants computer scientists to move beyo...
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AI Researcher wants computer scientists to move beyond the matrix
Author : amrrs
Score : 5 points
Date : 2022-09-05 19:15 UTC (3 hours ago)
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| ogoparootbbo wrote:
| tldr: use tensors over matrices
| esperent wrote:
| This was underwhelming. A whole load of intro fluff about this
| person's upbringing and then it turns out she just wants to use
| tensors, as if that's some radical new idea.
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| If you're not familiar with tensors, where a matrix is a two-
| dimensional array of numbers, a tensor is an n-dimensional array.
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| Why this idea is not radical: ever hear of Tensorflow (one of the
| most popular AI libraries)? Or Google Tensor, which is a TPU
| (tensor processing unit)? Or Nvidia Tensor cores?
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| Computer scientists are already well aware of tensors and make
| extensive use of them, when it makes sense to do so.
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