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Expressing summing along an axis #30

Closed azpoliak closed 3 years ago

azpoliak commented 3 years ago

Would it make sense to refer to this in English as summing A over the foo axis?

https://github.com/namedtensor/notation/blob/76988af5cf7c6720cf2f7ee61b4fbc587f8d012a/main.tex#L171-L178

srush commented 3 years ago

Yeah I like "over". Since our names are always "wholes" you could probably say "summing over the foo".

Doesn't always work. "summing over the hidden axis" is better.

azpoliak commented 3 years ago

great! I'll add a pr with that in the text shortly

srush commented 3 years ago

well let's wait for @davidweichiang to weigh in. We thought carefully about axis nouns, let's do the same for prepositions :)

azpoliak commented 3 years ago

Sgtm

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davidweichiang commented 3 years ago

Sure, that sounds fine to me. The other usage I see in the NumPy/PyTorch documentation is "along the foo axis."

srush commented 3 years ago

I think I prefer "over" since it is less geometric. "summing over the vocab" sounds better to me than "summing along the vocab axis". The first seems to imply a space whereas the second seems to be a physical axis.

azpoliak commented 3 years ago

Good timing. The PR uses "over" instead of "along" or "across"