The matrix transformation as a model for declarative atomic data flow operations

Mon, 09 Nov 2015 19:45:00 +0100

After just reading on Hacker News about Google’s newly released TensorFlow library , for deep learning based on tensors and data flow, I realized I wrote in a draft post back in 2013 that:

“What if one could have a fully declarative “matrix language” in which all data transformations ever needed could be declaratively defined in a way that is very easy to comprehend?”

… so, I thought this is a good time to post this draft, to see whether it spurs any further ideas. The following is an almost “as is” copy and paste of that document from December 2013:

Thinking-Tools on Living Systems_

The matrix transformation as a model for declarative atomic data flow operations