[GaltMidas]

Thank you so much for all of this great work. What was the inspiration for this direction? Was it a personal itch? Or something else?

[josevalim]

In general notes, it is an effort to bring more use cases to Elixir, the Erlang VM, and the ecosystem. But it is an area I have been interested on (back in 2009 my master thesis was actually within Machine Learning). When I met Sean (through the Genetic Algorithms in Elixir book), our interests aligned and we started working on it!