Add TensorFlow library to Pyret #287
                
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This pull request adds a TensorFlow library to Pyret for the development of programs with machine learning capabilities. It's a transfer of the code from this pyret-lang branch to CPO.
The library code is located at src/js/trove/tensorflow.js and (mostly complete) documentation is located in a separate pull request at brownplt/pyret-docs#44. The old branch contains example programs at examples/tensorflow, but I'll extract those out to a separate repo in the meantime.
Most of the functions in the Pyret library are ported from the existing TensorFlow.js project. Two important questions:
num_to_roughnumfunction in the Pyret runtime at this pull request: Expose num_to_roughnum from runtime pyret-lang#1393. There might be a better way to do this—let me know!And a few interesting notes:
Float32Arrays. As such, retrieving data from a Pyret Tensor always returns aList<Roughnum>. Unavoidably, this also means that all Pyret numbers need to be converted to JavaScript fixnums before passing them to a TensorFlow.js function, so we’ll lose some precision and won’t be able to handle arbitrary large numbers. However, this should be fine, since this is a limitation of the official TensorFlow.js library too.