102: Machine Learning in Elixir with Sean Moriarity

Sean Moriarity, the author of Genetic Algorithms in Elixir, lays out Machine Learning in the Elixir space. We talk about where it is today and where it's going in the future. Sean talks more about his book, how that led to working with José Valim which then led to the creation of Nx. He fills us in on recent ML events with Google and Facebook and shows us how Elixir fits into the bigger picture. It's a fast developing area and Sean helps us follow the important points even if we aren't doing ML ourselves… because our teams may still need it.

Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/102

Elixir Community News

• https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix_live_view/blob/v0.17.10/CHANGELOG.md – Phoenix LiveView gets a minor release v0.17.10 with formatting improvements
• https://www.rakeroutes.com/2022/05/18/let-s-write-an-elixir-livebook-smart-cell – Creating custom Livebook Smart Cells
• https://twitter.com/evadne/status/1527651328188723209 – Etso was updated to work with the latest Ecto
• https://github.com/evadne/etso – Etso library

Do you have some Elixir news to share? Tell us at @ThinkingElixir or email at show@thinkingelixir.com

Discussion Resources

• https://pragprog.com/titles/smgaelixir/genetic-algorithms-in-elixir/ – Genetic Algorithms in Elixir
• https://github.com/elixir-nx/nx – Numerical Elixir (Nx)
• https://github.com/elixir-nx/axon – Nx-powered Neural Networks for Elixir.
• https://pragprog.com/titles/smgaelixir/genetic-algorithms-in-elixir/ – Book - Genetic Algorithms in Elixir
• https://scala-lang.org/
• https://www.quora.com/
• https://pragprog.com/titles/elixir16/programming-elixir-1-6/
• https://pragprog.com/titles/phoenix14/programming-phoenix-1-4/
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/briancardarella/
• https://dockyard.com/
• https://dockyard.com/blog/authors/sean-moriarity – Sean's blog posts on Dockyard blog
• https://numpy.org/
• https://llvm.org/
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Softmax_function
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_language_processing
• https://xkcd.com/1897/ – XKCD comic
• https://www.image-net.org/
• https://www.deeplearningbook.org/
• https://ai.googleblog.com/2022/04/pathways-language-model-palm-scaling-to.html
• https://erlef.org/wg/machine-learning – Erlang Eco-system foundation machine working group

Guest Information

• https://twitter.com/sean_moriarity – on Twitter
• https://github.com/seanmor5/ – on Github
• https://seanmoriarity.com – Blog

Find us online

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