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> Doesn't for_tree(...) look a lot nicer and simpler and less error prone than needing to implement a recursive function for each operation you would want to do on a tree?
No it does not
This seems like basic speculative attribution error- no research here.
Are you suggesting that XLA would be where this "lower level" approach would reside since it can do more automatic optimization?
1. https://jax.readthedocs.io/en/latest/pallas/index.html
2. https://github.com/jax-ml/jax/blob/main/jax/experimental/pal...
I was hoping the article would be about this instead. OP wondering if you have any elaborations for us to hear.
I think this passage gets to the fundamental rift of disagreement in perspective between those focused purely on computational advances versus innovating in wet lab techniques.
Why? Because years of peoples' careers have been wasted waiting on promises from molecular biologists claiming they will make these "clever" high-throughput experiments work. In my experience, they'll spend months to years concocting a Rube Goldberg machine of chained molecular biology steps, each of which has (at best) a 90% success rate. You don't have to chain many of these together before your "clever" setup has a ~0% probability of successfully gathering data.