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SE Radio 588: José Valim on Elixir, Machine Learning, and Livebook
Software Engineering Radio - The Podcast for Professional Software Developers
English - November 02, 2023 17:10 - 1 hour - 87.5 MB - ★★★★ - 210 ratingsTechnology Education How To software engineering development programming architecture concurrency testing embedded systems enterprise Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
José Valim, creator of the Elixir programming language, Chief Adoption Officer at Dashbit, and author of three programming books, speaks with SE Radio host Gavin Henry about what Elixir is today, what Livebook is, the five spearheads of the new machine learning ecosystem for Elixir, and how they all fit together. Valim describes why he created Elixir, what “the beam” is, and how he pitches it to new users. This episode examines things you can do with Livebook and how it is well-aligned with machine learning, as well as why immutability is important and how it works. They take a detailed look at a range of topics, including tensors with Nx, traditional machine learning with Scholar, data munging with Explorer, deep learning and neural networks with Axon, Bumblebee and Huggingface, and model creation basics. Brought to you by IEEE Computer Society and IEEE Software magazine.