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Comment · 11 months ago
The LM Studio team is on the case! Can you share settings you used to make that reply?
Comment · 11 months ago
We think there is something you with LM Studio's version of Olmo. We're investigating. Sorry about this.
Comment · 11 months ago
Hmm. We think there is something wrong with the LM Studio integration. Thinking traces can be whacky, but not like this. We're looking into it.
Comment · 2 years ago
Comment · 4 years ago
AllenNLP was written for research, not for production. Many of the design choices reflect that.

As far as the vocabulary goes, a lot of AllenNLP components are about experimenting with ways to turn text into vectors. Constructing the vocabulary is part of that. When pre-trained transformers became a thing, this wasn't needed anymore. That's part of why we decided to deprecate the library: Very few people experiment with how to construct vocabularies anymore, so we don't want to live with the complexity anymore.

Comment · 4 years ago
Comment · 4 years ago
It depends on what you use AllenNLP for. AllenNLP has a ton of functionality for vectorizing text. Most of the tokenizer/indexer/embedder stuff is about that. But these days we all use transformers for that, so there isn't much of a need to experiment with ways to vectorize.

If you like the trainer, or the configuration language, or some of the other components you should check out Tango (https://github.com/allenai/tango). One of Tango's origins is the question "What if AllenNLP supported workflow steps other than read -> train -> evaluate?". We noticed that a lot of work in NLP no longer fit that simple pattern, so we needed a new tool that can support more complex experiments.

If you like the metrics, try torchmetrics. Torchmetrics has almost exactly the same API as AllenNLP metrics.

If you like any of the nn components, please get in touch with the Tango team (on GitHub). We recently had some discussion around rescuing a few of those, since there seems to be some excitement.

Comment · 4 years ago
AllenNLP has only ever supported Torch. At the moment, Tango only supports Torch as well, but Jax support is well underway.

And yeah, Tango is a lot like a build script. In fact, I used to manage my experiments with Makefiles. Tango is better though. Results don't have to be single files, and they don't have to live in one filesystem either, so I can run the GPU-heavy parts of my experiments on one machine, and the CPU-heavy parts on another. The way you version your code is better than what Makefiles can do. You have actual control beyond file modification time. And of course, there is the whole Python integration stuff.

Comment · 5 years ago
Comment · 5 years ago
One of your queries is `SELECT uid FROM user WHERE cap LIKE '%s%';`. I can only assume your users table is tiny. How does it do with 1M users?
Comment · 5 years ago
I bet someone who makes a living selling working code would disagree.
Comment · 6 years ago
also JavaScript and PHP

edit: and Bash and VBA

Comment · 6 years ago
The _only_ factor to programming language popularity is how accessible it is.

Beauty and elegance don't matter. Performance doesn't matter. In fact, no measure of "fitness for purpose" matters.

If Malbolge was built into every operating system, Stack Overflow would plug the gaps, and major production systems would be built in it. People would give conference talks about "scaling Malbolge to millions of transactions per second". It would have a package manager, a deep learning framework, and several UI toolkits.

In some sense, this has already happened.

Comment · 6 years ago
I used to have one of those. Sure it can run all that hardware, but it sounds like a jet engine when it's running. Completely ridiculous design that would never be released by Apple.

The Microsoft Surface Books also have a 1060 inside, but they are whisper quiet.

Comment · 7 years ago
USD is backed (among other things) by the government accepting taxes in it. If you don't pay, they will come to your house with guns and take you away. This creates a demand for USD that is completely unlike any demand for crypto.

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