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A neat proposal by

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on naming the axes of matrices in order to aid understanding: namedtensor.github.io Reminds of how I often prefer named parameters and records in programming over their positional alternatives. 🤔

A snippet showing Section 2 of the linked article on "Named Tensor Notation".

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Brendan Zabarauskas

@brendanzab

Feb 11, 2021

It's interesting to note that many numerical libraries and languages seem to allow naming the axes of arrays these days. I'm guessing might be where the inspiration came from?

@contextfree

compared and contrasted some of these this video:

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ND Arrays (Tensors) in different languages

Code: https://github.com/contextfreecode/tensorThanks much to Casper Sørensen for hi and bye (and Bjarne Stroustrup) in Danish! - https://theparallelthread.c...

Sasha Rush

@srush_nlp

Feb 11, 2021

Yeah, worked on this with the torch folks a couple years ago. But we had trouble convincing them to remove orders as well (since it matters for speed). Until there are better JITs, we're re-focusing on notation.

Brendan Zabarauskas

@brendanzab

Feb 11, 2021

Yeah, ultimately removing the restriction on ordering seems super handy. Seems like the matrices would then become something like homogeneous nested records?