NuMojo Feature Additions and Removals for v0.1

[shivasankarka]

Update

I will make a copy of my current implementation to ndarray (my branch) and keep the StaticIntTuple version as it is in case we want to come back to it later for compile time optimisation.

1. I’ll remove StaticIntTuple, revert it back to List() as our old implementation (VariadicList is not so good to work with right now)
2. I’ll remove the View, so that it’s less confusing for now.

Proposal for v0.1

Following are the changes I propose that we should include in version 0.1 for completeness.

1. I believe we should keep the NDArrayShape, NDArrayStrides implementation since they offer a lot of functionality (similar to TensorShape but works like Numpy instead) that makes our life easy,

   • no more three layers to set and get values or check every value for if condition etc)
     and user life easier,
   • easy to print, access shape values easily, compare them and check if it contains a value etc

2. We can work on View in background and add it to later versions (view is a really important feature in numpy that makes things more memory efficient, so we should include that at least before 1.0)

3. Quoting alex, we need (let's update it in the example repo, I will try to make a standard format for it)

   • Basic documentation for all functions, structs, and methods (probably in markdown to begin with).
   • Maybe a written tutorial if we have time -> I think a notebook tutorial will be good.

4. Implement all basic array functions (marked with pass in NDArray) -> I will finish it this week.

5. Implement axis parameters for certain functions - I think this is an important feature to add if we are going with NDArrays and alex is working on it already.

6. Logo! I think we should have some basic logo for NuMojo 0.1. So make your suggestions for Logo. I'll start it off with what I had in mind "A fire emoji holding arrays and combining it". Following are some of the renderings from the members,

I belive we will have a good implementation once these are done and we can release 0.1 in Two weeks. Please share your ideas of what to include in NuMojo 0.1