Good morning Clojurians, About 2 months ago during a talk about the tech.ml systems the point was made that if we could load the python C libraries then that would provide us with a lot more libraries to draw from. In addition, I seem to remember one of the ML talks a concern about lack of libraries being the problem.
So, in the spirit of building bridges and providing clojure with the best possible libraries for any particular problem on the planet, I took the last month and built out raw cpython (libpython3.X) bindings based on JNA. So, today after cleaning things up just a little bit I decided it was time to announce libpython-clj. My hope is that there are enough clojuian pythonistas that we can take this library and make it an absolute joy to work with; the best python hosting environment that exists. https://github.com/cnuernber/libpython-clj Some features include: * Python dicts are represented in java as java.util.Map's. * stdout,stderr are overridden to write to *out* and *err*, respectively. * transparent access to the python interpreter from any thread. * zero-copy pathways for numpy->tech.datatype tensors and back. So you can intermix heavy processing between clojure and python without pay a large conversion cost. * Decent performance. This is built on the raw cpython shared library so our cost of executing or interoperating with python should not be any higher than anyone else's. * two way bridging. Expose your JVM objects to python and vice versa. I have a simple keras demo where I use Keras from clojure to train a neural network included in the examples. So that proves out keras and tensorflow access from clojure. I think this soundly addresses our ability to load cutting edge math and machine learning libraries. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/clojure/CADbpEJvOWoxZu0Y_LHi%2B36bEbcOfxCV5n0jd7mhvq8TO9MaD_w%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
