Hacker News with Generative AI: Scientific Computing

Neuralatex: A machine learning library written in pure LATEX (neuralatex.com)
Neuralatex is a scalar values-based auto-grad library similar to MicroGrad but written entirely in latex! As part of your latex document you can specify the architecture of a neural network and loss functions, how to generate or load training data, and specify training hyperparameters and experiments. When the document is compiled, the latex compiler will generate or load training data, train the network, run experiments and generate figures.

Machine Learning, LaTeX, Programming, Libraries, Scientific Computing

25 points by Anon84 2 days ago | 3 comments

Frink (frinklang.org)
Frink is a practical calculating tool and programming language designed to make physical calculations simple, to help ensure that answers come out right, and to make a tool that's really useful in the real world.

Programming Languages, Scientific Computing, Tools

236 points by lisper 13 days ago | 40 comments

Datoviz: High-Performance GPU Scientific Visualization Library with Vulkan (khronos.org)
Datoviz is a cross-platform, open-source, high-performance GPU scientific data visualization library designed for interactive exploration of large datasets.

Data Visualization, Scientific Computing, Open Source, GPU Computing, Vulkan

6 points by rossant 21 days ago | 1 comments

Fastplotlib: GPU-accelerated, fast, and interactive plotting library (medium.com)
fastplotlib is a new GPU-accelerated fast and interactive scientific plotting library that leverages WGPU

GPU Acceleration, Visualization, Scientific Computing, Python, Libraries

491 points by rossant 23 days ago | 179 comments

New horizons for Julia (lwn.net)
Julia, a free, general-purpose programming language aimed at science, engineering, and related arenas of technical computing, has steadily improved and widened its scope of application since its initial public release in 2012.

Programming Languages, Julia, Scientific Computing, Open Source

217 points by leephillips 42 days ago | 81 comments

Understanding Automatic Differentiation in Jax: A Deep Dive (ispeakcode.substack.com)
Welcome to the world of JAX, where differentiation happens automatically, faster than a caffeine-fuelled coder at 3 a.m.! In this post, we’re going to delve into the concept of Automatic Differentiation (AD), a feature at the heart of JAX, and we’ll explore why it’s such a game changer for machine learning, scientific computing, and any other context where derivatives matter. The popularity of JAX has been increasing lately, thanks to the emerging field of scientific machine learning powered by differentiable programming.

Automatic Differentiation, Machine Learning, Scientific Computing, Programming, JAX

3 points by lawrenceyan 43 days ago | 0 comments

Bloodflowtrixi.jl – 1D and 2D blood flow models for arterial circulation (github.com/yolhan83)
BloodFlowTrixi.jl is a Julia package that implements one-dimensional (1D) and two-dimensional (2D) blood flow models for arterial circulation.

Julia, Blood Flow, Medical Modeling, Scientific Computing, Open Source

70 points by darboux 47 days ago | 11 comments

The Tensor Cookbook (2024) (tensorcookbook.com)
This book aims to standardize the notation for tensor diagrams by rewriting the classical "Matrix Cookbook" using this notation.

Mathematics, Linear Algebra, Tensor Notation, Scientific Computing, Computer Science

199 points by t55 62 days ago | 37 comments

Etalumis: Bringing Probabilistic Programming to Scientific Simulators at Scale (arxiv.org)
Probabilistic programming languages (PPLs) are receiving widespread attention for performing Bayesian inference in complex generative models.

Probabilistic Programming, Scientific Computing, Machine Learning, Bayesian Inference

3 points by Anon84 105 days ago | 0 comments

Scientific Computing on the Sony Playstation 2 (2003) (archive.org)
The National Center for Supercomputing Applications and the Computer Science department at the University of Illinois are exploring the use of the Sony PlayStation® 2 game console for scientific computing and high-resolution visualization.

Scientific Computing, Gaming Consoles, PlayStation, University Research, History

8 points by sandwichsphinx 115 days ago | 0 comments

Scientific computing with confidence using typed dimensions (laurentrdc.xyz)
I have performed non-trivial scientific calculations, in university and beyond, for almost 15 years.

Scientific Computing, Programming, Software, Tools

97 points by g0xA52A2A 134 days ago | 47 comments

Khronos SYCL Being Updated to Increase Appeal for HPC and Scientific Computing (phoronix.com)
In addition to the release today of OpenMP 6.0 ahead of the SC24 supercomputing conference in Atlanta, over at The Khronos Group they have provided an update on upcoming SYCL improvements to benefit high performance computing (HPC) and scientific computing applications.

HPC, Scientific Computing, Programming Languages, Open Source

4 points by sandwichsphinx 140 days ago | 0 comments

Ask HN: Are my HPC professors right? Is Python worthless compared to C? (ycombinator.com)
I'm a PhD student implementing a finite element code. It simulates electromagnet waves passing through heterogeneous material. This code has to run in parallel, and run fast. I've been using old C libraries like PETSc to do this, and honestly, I do not enjoy working with C at all. Its esoteric and difficult to understand, and just overall feels like I'm using a tool from the 70s.

Programming Languages, PhD Research, Scientific Computing, Software Engineering

16 points by megaloblasto 160 days ago | 31 comments

My NumPy year: Creating a DType for the next generation of scientific computing (quansight.com)
From no CPython C API experience to shipping a new DType in NumPy 2.0.

NumPy, Scientific Computing, Python, Programming, Software

96 points by elashri 162 days ago | 15 comments

My NumPy year: Creating a DType for the next generation of scientific computing (quansight.com)
From no CPython C API experience to shipping a new DType in NumPy 2.0.

NumPy, Scientific Computing, Programming, Data Science

85 points by sebg 164 days ago | 9 comments

Machine Learning to Computational Plasma Physics Reduced-Order Plasma Modeling (arxiv.org)
Machine learning (ML) provides a broad spectrum of tools and architectures that enable the transformation of data from simulations and experiments into useful and explainable science, thereby augmenting domain knowledge.

Machine Learning, Plasma Physics, Computational Physics, Data Science, Scientific Computing

20 points by sandwichsphinx 164 days ago | 1 comments

Building a compile-time SIMD optimized smoothing filter (scientificcomputing.rs)
I built a Savitzky-Golay filter (fancy name for a dot product with some known constants on a rolling window) and tried to optimize the crap out of it.

Optimization, Image Processing, Scientific Computing, Data Analysis

88 points by PaulHoule 188 days ago | 22 comments

CuPy: NumPy and SciPy for GPU (github.com/cupy)
CuPy is a NumPy/SciPy-compatible array library for GPU-accelerated computing with Python.

GPU Computing, Python, Scientific Computing, NumPy, SciPy

377 points by tanelpoder 196 days ago | 106 comments

Performance of Eigen vs. Blaze vs. Fastor vs. Armadillo vs. XTensor (2020) (medium.com)
It is March 2020. C++20 is almost around the corner and as a scientific C++ programmer I am quite thrilled with the new features that the language is getting.

C++, Performance, Libraries, Programming, Scientific Computing

19 points by egorpv 198 days ago | 0 comments

Ngscopeclient: Advanced T&M remote control and analysis suite (ngscopeclient.org)
Drag and drop to create complex, GPU-accelerated analysis pipelines in the filter graph editor

Software, Data Analysis, Scientific Computing, Remote Control

7 points by jdboyd 206 days ago | 0 comments

Slime mold simulation in Rust using WASM and WebGPU (github.com/plul)

Rust, WebAssembly, WebGPU, Simulation, Scientific Computing

27 points by sshine 224 days ago | 3 comments

Show HN: Datoviz – Vulkan-based GPU scientific visualization (C/C++/Python) (github.com/datoviz)

Visualization, GPU, Scientific Computing, C++, Python

23 points by rossant 241 days ago | 2 comments

Pixi – rust-based package manager for reproducible scientific workflows (prefix.dev)