Facebook Building Automatic Differentiation System for Kotlin Programming Language
Facebook AI is building an automatic differentiation system for the Kotlin programming language and developing a system for tensor typing.
Tag: Programming
After 15 Long Years, a NumPy Paper Finally Appears!
NumPy is the foundation upon which the scientific Python ecosystem is constructed.
ACM SIGGRAPH 2020 Doctoral Dissertation Award Goes to MIT CSAIL’s Tzu-Mao Li for PhD Thesis on Differentiable Visual Computing
ACM SIGGRAPH has honoured MIT CSAIL postdoctoral researcher Li Tzu-Mao with its 2020 Doctoral Dissertation Award for his PhD thesis Differentiable Visual Computing.
GitHub Announces ‘Codespaces’ for In-Browser Coding
Codespaces is an in-browser integrated development environment (IDE) that lets users type their code directly on a GitHub website page.
PyTorch 1.5 Released: New APIs, Updated C++ Frontend and More
The PyTorch Team yesterday announced the release of PyTorch 1.5, along with new and updated libraries.
Introducing ‘DiffTaichi’ – A Differentiable Programming Language Tailored for Physical Simulation
Researchers have proposed DiffTaichi, a new differentiable programming language based on Taichi and specially tailored for building high-performance differentiable physical simulators.
CMU Senior Develops World’s First Classical Chinese Programming Language
Carnegie Mellon University computer science major Lingdong Huang has developed ‘Wenyan-Lang,’ a programming language based on Chinese hanzi characters and the wenyan classical Chinese grammar system.
Training SOTA Language Models With Three Lines of Code
Hugging Face, a startup specializing in natural language processing, today released a landmark update to their popular Transformers library, offering unprecedented compatibility between two major deep learning frameworks, PyTorch and TensorFlow 2.0.
R.I.P. Python 2: October 16, 2000 – January 1, 2020
In an official statement released today on python.org, the volunteer team that manages the programming language announced they will sunset Python 2 on January 1, 2020.
A Google Brain Program Is Learning How to Program
The idea of using machine learning to teach programs how to automatically write or modify code has always been tempting for computer scientists.
Facebook Open-Sources SKIP Programming Language
Skip is an experimental research language project that Facebook developed over the last three years: “Skip tracks side effects to provide caching with reactive invalidation, ergonomic and safe parallelism, and efficient garbage collection. Skip is statically typed and ahead-of-time compiled using LLVM to produce highly optimized executables.”