[HN Gopher] Shumai: Fast Differentiable Tensor Library in TypeSc...
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Shumai: Fast Differentiable Tensor Library in TypeScript with Bun
and Flashlight
Author : brrrrrm
Score : 63 points
Date : 2022-10-17 16:18 UTC (6 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (github.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (github.com)
| 4pkjai wrote:
| I shouldn't be annoyed by this, but as a Cantonese speaker I
| really dislike this name.
| lgessler wrote:
| Genuinely curious: for what reason?
| joshxyz wrote:
| Filipino here. it's a slang term for dimsum food! haha.
|
| We spell it as siomai though.
| whimsicalism wrote:
| > it's a slang term for dimsum food!
|
| My guess is that is intentional...
| the_optimist wrote:
| There are many variants and spellings.
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shumai
| brrrrrm wrote:
| Due to the overly westernized transliteration?
| numpad0 wrote:
| Or Japonic? Most of _kanji_ transliterations on the Internet
| are Japanese based, but since Japanese is an isolate language
| of unknown origin[1], they might sound weird in the bulk of
| East Asia where Chinese languages are predominantly spoken or
| otherwise not insignificant.
|
| 1: Technically not; languages in rural Japanese islands are
| no longer considered dialects, and as such the language is
| not the sole member of its family. The origin is still
| unknown.
| william-evans wrote:
| This is very exciting. Given the size of the
| JavaScript/TypeScript community it was missing something like
| this, especially, for proof-of-concept use cases.
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| whimsicalism wrote:
| Flashlight is a really kickass ML library and the only good
| alternative to torch on C++ that I know of.
|
| Excited to see what this will enable.
| kbd wrote:
| It's interesting that this was built for Bun (vs other js
| runtimes) because of its specific properties. Cool to see Bun
| emerge early as Zig's "killer app".
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