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   by gpjt 3y ago

   Not from Lago, but from my own experience I'd guess it's due to the requirements to set up payroll in different countries. If you hire someone, even as a remote worker, in a particular country, you need a payroll processor to make
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   by gpjt 3y ago

   An interesting article, with many good points (I particularly like the reminder that unless you're competing with OpenAI, AI is in the solution space) but despite the repetition that this time is different to the Internet, I do feel th
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   LLM Quantisation Weirdness(gilesthomas.com)

   2 points by gpjt 3y ago|0 comments
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   by gpjt 3y ago

   What quantization were you using? I've been getting some weird results with 34b quantized to 4 bits -- glitching, dropped tokens, generating Java rather than Python as requested. But 7b, even at 4 bits, works OK. Posted about it earli
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   by gpjt 3y ago

   That would help, but I can imagine that on larger planes, especially if people connect their phone, then later their laptop, and so on, you could hit the limit of a 192.168.x subnet even during a flight.
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   by gpjt 3y ago

   Thanks! Looks like that was just after they got started, though, so perhaps things have changed? It all seemed pretty simple and will organised later on that year, do could have been teething troubles.
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   by gpjt 3y ago

   I'm surprised no-one's mentioned Estonia so far. I looked into it a while back, and it all seemed very easy to set up. You just needed to get an e-Resident ID (which was pretty simple) and there were cheap local companies to handl
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   by gpjt 3y ago

   Not an expert but I suspect it would be most useful for the instruction tuning and fine-tuning phases. They would pre-train the model on some huge dump of stuff from the internet like the Pile -- Wikipedia, books, Reddit scrapes and so on,
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   by gpjt 3y ago

   Thanks! After a bit of poking around, just got a PO-12 to have a play with.
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    by gpjt 3y ago

    "Quis dimittet ipsos dimissores?"
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    by gpjt 3y ago

    And the remainder is mostly mispronounced German or Danish.
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    by gpjt 3y ago

    LOL! I was just scrolling through HN before bed and spotted a headline about FastAPI, which was very much top of my mind after the go-live on the beta today. Clicked through and saw it mentioned us, so posted right away.
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    by gpjt 3y ago

    PythonAnywhere founder here: your timing is impeccable! Literally today we started our beta-testing of our initial implementation of ASGI support. Features are limited right now but you can start and run a FastAPI site with a single reque
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    by gpjt 3y ago

    I think it was a combination of those, plus terrible market timing -- we released it, thinking we could sell to finance types, in 2008. In our sales pipeline spreadsheet, the "notes" column started saying things like "custom
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    by gpjt 3y ago

    Right, the lack of support for C extensions in IronPython was a problem; we kicked off the IronClad project [1] to fix that -- looks like someone else picked it up later and updated it for Python 2.7 [2]. Not sure where it went after that,
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    by gpjt 3y ago

    That's awesome, glad you like it :-D
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    by gpjt 3y ago

    Definitely check out PyScript if you haven't already. It works pretty well and is being actively developed. (Full disclosure: I work for Anaconda, which is the primary developer.)
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    by gpjt 3y ago

    There's https://pyscript.net/ -- or do you mean for scripting the browser's behaviour rather than replacing JS in website code?
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    by gpjt 3y ago

    Back in 2005, some friends and I started a company called Resolver Systems to build a Python-enabled spreadsheet, which we called Resolver One. Sadly, it never took off in the marketplace, and we had to pivot; we would up creating PythonAn
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    by gpjt 3y ago

    Interestingly enough, when Resolver One didn't work out in the marketplace, we pivoted to PythonAnywhere. That took off nicely, and was acquired by Anaconda last year. And now Anaconda is realising those old dreams :-) BTW for clarit
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    PythonAnywhere: Our Commitment to Providing Free Accounts(blog.pythonanywhere.com)

    5 points by gpjt 4y ago|0 comments
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    by gpjt 9y ago

    OTOH every time I use CSS to try to lay something out in a manner that can handle different window sizes, I think nostalgically of the Motif Form widget.
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    by gpjt 9y ago

    PythonAnywhere dev here: fair point re: the caching of static assets, but could you give a bit more information about the SSL and the graceful restart? All of that should work fine.
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    by gpjt 10y ago

    There's an extra tax paid by the employer, technically "employer's National Insurance contributions", which is about 10% (up to a limit). So that's comparable to US payroll taxes. Because the National Health Servic
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    by gpjt 10y ago

    PythonAnywhere dev here -- we'd be very happy to have you back! (Especially if you tell us what made Nitrous a better platform while they were still operating.)
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    by gpjt 10y ago

    Hah, that brings back memories!
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    Pam-unshare: a PAM module that switches into a PID namespace(gilesthomas.com)

    5 points by gpjt 11y ago|0 comments
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    A beginner's guide to building a simple DB-backed Flask site on PythonAnywhere(blog.pythonanywhere.com)

    4 points by gpjt 11y ago|0 comments
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    by gpjt 11y ago

    Maybe I'm missing something, but isn't a t2.medium server a poor choice for benchmarking? They're burstable, so CPU performance can vary over time. Unless you're extremely careful with timing the tests, you'll g
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    by gpjt 11y ago

    Sounds like it's still an interesting cautionary tale. Looking forward to reading about what they told you!