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| author | Peter Andreas Entschev <peter@entschev.com> | 2020-08-19 18:57:41 +0200 |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2020-08-19 18:57:41 +0200 |
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Update doc/neps/nep-0035-array-creation-dispatch-with-array-function.rst
Co-authored-by: Eric Wieser <wieser.eric@gmail.com>
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diff --git a/doc/neps/nep-0035-array-creation-dispatch-with-array-function.rst b/doc/neps/nep-0035-array-creation-dispatch-with-array-function.rst index c5a266dfe..4ed00d15e 100644 --- a/doc/neps/nep-0035-array-creation-dispatch-with-array-function.rst +++ b/doc/neps/nep-0035-array-creation-dispatch-with-array-function.rst @@ -132,9 +132,9 @@ chunks and they may be of different types. However, in the context of a Dask array can be formed of several NumPy arrays or several CuPy arrays, but not a mix of both. -To avoid mismatched types during compute, Dask keeps an attribute ``_meta`` as -part of its array throughout computation, this attribute is used to both predict -the output type at graph creation time and to create any intermediary arrays +To avoid mismatched types during computation, Dask keeps an attribute ``_meta`` as +part of its array throughout computation: this attribute is used to both predict +the output type at graph creation time, and to create any intermediary arrays that are necessary within some function's computation. Going back to our previous example, we can use ``_meta`` information to identify what kind of array we would use for padding, as seen below: |