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DagsEoress | 1 year ago

Very interesting, thanks for sharing! I didn't know Elixir was so invested in Machine Learning. I have a background in Erlang so I'll definitely dive in. Do you know of any individuals / companies that have had success with Elixir+ML in production?

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thibaut_barrere|1 year ago

You welcome. Afaik it has been a long-time bet done by José Valim (former Rubyist & author of e.g. Devise) and others, this is not something that is going away anytime.

Each library has been building on top of the previous libraries & abstractions (including transpiling Elixir instructions into GPU code, see "defn" etc).

Since you mention Erlang, there is even a Machine Learning Working Group at https://erlef.org/wg/machine-learning.

The most iconic & advertised case I'm aware of is the work done at Amplified https://www.amplified.ai ; this has been the topic of a Keynote at ElixirConf EU this year, which you can find at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FlZHkc4Mq4.

I am also starting to use ML + Elixir in production and I'm aware of other individuals doing so.

I do not have a registry of companies doing so, but we're seeing more and more experienced ML practitioners mentioning they are coming from Python and willing to try something different (e.g. https://elixirforum.com/t/data-science-and-machine-learning-... and other posts on Elixir Forum).

Hope this helps!

nextos|1 year ago

I had looked into Elixir/Erlang + ML before, and I keep revisiting it for Python alternatives.

How developed is Elixir/Erlang in this area? What are the key advantages?