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Gilad Bracha is working on Shaperank. An APL inspired language for reactively calculating with multi dimensional arrays. Ie vectors and matrices. https://twitter.com/Gilad_Bracha/status/1450149734325256193

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Obviously this is relevant to machine learning and data analytics. On github: https://github.com/f5devcentral/shapeRank

I like the confluence of ML and array languages happening right now. I know Pandas and NumPy are their offspring, but I like the array-oriented PLs. An ELM (Extreme Learning Machine) in J [1], CNNs in APL [2], and APL-to-GPU toolchains like Futhark/apltail [3,4]. I'll have to look at shapeRank.

[1] https://github.com/peportier/jelm

[2] https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3315454.3329960

[3] https://futhark-lang.org/blog/2016-06-20-futhark-as-an-apl-c...

[4] https://github.com/melsman/apltail/

Interesting how reactive graph are spreading everywhere :)

Can you explain/expand on this?

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