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A neat proposal by

, and

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. 🤔

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@afzhou

Feb 11, 2021

XArray does it too: xarray.pydata.org/en/latest/why-

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Oooh, this looks nice! Saw pytorch use it in

@contextfreeinfo

's video, but this seems like it integrates the axis labels more deeply into the library?

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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: youtube.com/watch?v=WbpbEi

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I haven't used

yet, but it looks great. I considered using it for the video. I used

@PyTorch

in the end to stick to the deep learning theme, but I xarray might have been a better choice for the labeling theme. And I should definitely try it out for real tasks sometime