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anston Llamafile lets you distribute and run LLMs with a single file

Many thanks! Incredibly versatile implementation.

anston Llamafile lets you distribute and run LLMs with a single file

Time to go amd, poor old me, Intel MB Air 2018 (zsh: exec format error, Darwin Kernel Version 22.2.0, MacOS Ventura 13.1).

anston Agile soccer skills for a bipedal robot with deep reinforcement learning

Definitely. The Invincible would fit as well https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Invincible Big time for Lem.

anston Taichi lang: High-performance parallel programming in Python

On my old Mac: Python=133.5 s, Numba=2.61 s (parallel prange in count_primes), Taichi=1.8 s. (on ti.cpu, but fails with metal).

anston Taichi lang: High-performance parallel programming in Python

In a winner-takes-all finite world a tipping point may never happen...

anston Machine Learning Can't Handle Long-Term Time-Series Data

Yeah, stir some mysterious ideas, maybe someone sees there a meaning. Quite surprised with this kind of vague magical thinking coming from lesswrong (thought they were rationalists or something).

anston How To Open and Manipulate Large CSV Files On A Mac

Python + Jupyter OK, but pandas actually reads everything at once, doesn’t it. 100MB is no problem but bigger files could result in high swapping pression.

anston A workshop for scientific computing in Python

A really interesting collection for teaching Data Science. But the "WorkshopScipy" and the "scientific computation" make reference to something like scipy.org. It seems that this repo has different interests.

anston The sound of the dialup, pictured (2012)

Stranger Things.

anston Ask HN: What maths are critical to pursuing ML/AI?

What "maths" is keras? Or scikit-learn? For what it's worth, to understand scikit-learn doc/tutorial I'd say you'll need Probability, Linear Algebra, Multivariate Calculus and, yeah, Stats. Not necessarily at a PhD level but still. And more you understand maths farther you can get in AL/ML.

anston Probability quantum world obeys local realism is less than one in a billion

Free will arising from quantum indeterminacy, well, that's a thought of Robert Penrose. The bad news is that even he didn't manage to convince others and the theory didn't really took off. In other words, we are not yet ready to understand such a link.

However, there is the Strong Free Will Theorem of Conway and Kochen. Essentially, they prove that "if humans have free will, then elementary particles already have their own small share of this valuable commodity", see http://www.ams.org/notices/200902/rtx090200226p.pdf

anston Why I left Mac for Windows: Apple has given up

The interesting thing is not only the article itself, but also the vote count here on HN. I can't stop thinking that professionals, once strategic target for Apple Computers, appear to be dumped by Apple Inc in favor of high-end consumers. It might be stock-wise OK, but it's a significant evolution. And if I care a little less about a breathtaking design and more about memory bus speed and GPU, soon I'll have to buy or build a PC. That's a pity.

anston Games of Coding – A curated list of games that teach you a programming language

Do not forget codingame.com.

anston Python vs Julia Observations

My take is from scientific computing perspective. But as my opinion isn't that interesting, I take this opportunity to cite some julia-python-language-relatedtopics on HN.

I'm still betting on Julia https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11516374 and, since I do not use it for "production", I'm not giving up https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11692155

That said, if it's all about speed, then Python can be, well, faster: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10735840 (especially so if you need BigInt, these still suck in Julia.)

Recently, discovered Go(language). Clean design rules! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4158865, (but you shouldn't take it for what it is not https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12330573)

anston Python vs Julia Observations

As someone using (and loving) both Python and Julia, I found the title overpromises and the content underdelivers. More accurate header would be "Personal take on REPL/shell interactions in bpython and Julia".