Elixir: A Distributed Machine Learning Notebook

José Valim joins Jerod to talk all about what’s new in Livebook – the Elixir-based interactive code notebook he’s been working on the last few years.

José made a big bet when he decided to bring machine learning to Elixir. That bet is now paying off with amazing new capabilities such as building and deploying a Whisper-based chat app to Hugging Face in just 15 minutes.

José demoed that and much more during Livebook’s first-ever launch week. Let’s get into it.

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Featuring:

• José Valim – Website, GitHub, X
• Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

Show Notes:

• Livebook
• The Changelog #439: Elixir meets machine learning

Launch Week

• Day 1: Deploy notebooks as apps & quality-of-life upgrades
• Day 2: Distributed² Machine Learning notebooks with Elixir and Livebook
• Day 3: Hubs and secret management
• Day 4: Build and deploy a Whisper chat app to Hugging Face in 15 minutes
• Day 5: Data wrangling in Elixir with Explorer, the power of Rust, the elegance of R

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!