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by lukemerrick 4mo ago
I am not super familiar with C and CUDA, so I read solely for the README and enjoyed it supremely. The blend of cheerful walking through instructive examples and your philosophical takes on how to approach the exercise to get the most out o
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Are We Entering a First-Order Optimizer Renaissance?(lukemerrick.com)
4 points by lukemerrick 1y ago|0 comments
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by lukemerrick 2y ago
Meta is a very large organization, and I'm willing to believe that a good chunk of Meta FAIR (the lab releasing all of this stuff) truly do care about innovations for advancing AI safety and are doing great work along these lines. I&#x
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by lukemerrick 2y ago
Looks like there is both an ARM and x86 version according to the docs. Probably need two different binaries, but you still get cross-OS for each architecture.
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by lukemerrick 2y ago
Just spent two hours on this. Would happily spend the time again (and probably will soon!). Awesome work.
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by lukemerrick 2y ago
Just skimmed so far and didn't see any reference to the Simplified Transformer block of https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.01906 (and it seems they also left out grouped query attention, too, as pointed out by another com
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Startup Rivos Says Apple Intimidates Workers Who ‘Dare to Leave’(bloomberg.com)
32 points by lukemerrick 3y ago|8 comments
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by lukemerrick 3y ago
Related to the idea of "no one trains on data they own, they shouldn't own the resulting model": since big public datasets like The Pile have CC-SA items in them, is anyone considering bringing the argument that model weights
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by lukemerrick 3y ago
As you guessed, the history tracking is one of the killer features. Imagine it being super easy to edit the history of a REPL session (delete, reorder, merge, and edit contents of each command) and rerun... That's a notebook! Notebooks
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File from Microsoft Xandr shows the many ways advertisers label people(themarkup.org)
7 points by lukemerrick 3y ago|2 comments
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by lukemerrick 3y ago
Thank you for the tip! Getting to implement a different language from Lox feels like a nice way to cut down on the tedium.
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by lukemerrick 3y ago
Wow, the whole concept of a peephole optimizer is a bit mind blowing to me. I'm appreciating all the reasons to power through to writing a bytecode VM as the next step. I'm not sure how far down the compiler I actually will enjoy
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by lukemerrick 3y ago
Thank you for the suggestions! I was actually just searching about MLIR today after reading some Julia language community discussions on the new Mojo language that uses MLIR.
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by lukemerrick 3y ago
I actually played with Unityper.jl and SumTypes.jl, but my conclusion was that if I was going to depart from dispatch on Julia types in my code, I might as well just stick to an untyped tree, since either way I'd have to have a single
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by lukemerrick 3y ago
In general, if you keep the source code positions of every nontrivial token, and you keep the raw source code, then yeah you can print out those pretty specific point error messages regardless of whether you keep your trees lossless. Also,
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Building a Lox Interpreter in Julia(lukemerrick.com)
74 points by lukemerrick 3y ago|24 comments
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by lukemerrick 3y ago
Disclaimer: I wrote this blog post. If this were an "Ask HN" post, though, the question would be "What next after reading Crafting Interpreters?" I have only done the tree-walk interpreter half of the book, but I'm
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by lukemerrick 4y ago
I'm late to the party, but I want to say thank you for sharing this. It's inspiring to look at how much you've built and (hopefully) enjoyed the process of building! I'm loving everything -- your site, your language desi
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Optimizing utility-scale battery storage dispatch(medium.com)
1 points by lukemerrick 4y ago|1 comments
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by lukemerrick 4y ago
Disclaimer: I'm the author. I was torn whether to share my own post, but I figured the HN crowd might include a few others who will also really geek out about this topic and appreciate it. It's mathematical optimization and foreca
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Show HN: Stalkmyself.com, parse Gmail exports in the browser thanks to Pyodide(stalkmyself.com)
1 points by lukemerrick 4y ago|0 comments
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by lukemerrick 4y ago
HN is special, and you all here in this comment tree are the best of the best -- love the fact that everyone is having fun with this in such a civil way and historically knowledgeable way. For anyone who wants the naming backstory, Investor
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by lukemerrick 4y ago
Ah, this is a nuanced point I totally left off the README. Each raw file is ~5GB, but the raw files are a dump of network traffic from the firehose feed that tracks not just trades, but also updates to orders that do not result in trades. I
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Show HN: Investorsexchange.jl – parse trade-level stock market data in Julia(github.com)
136 points by lukemerrick 4y ago|63 comments
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by lukemerrick 7y ago
This is an incredibly salient point. Others have also pointed out that there are numerous applications in which black box models appear to offer significantly greater accuracy than interpretable models, bolstering the notion that this artic