Readit Newsbrrrrrm commented on Spatial intelligence is AI’s next frontier drfeifei.substack.com/p/f... · Posted by u/mkirchner
we've discovered some kind of differentiable computer[1] and as with all computers, people have their own interests and hobbies they use them for. but unlike computers, everyone pitches their interest or hobby as being the only one that matters.
brrrrrm commented on Helion: A high-level DSL for performant and portable ML kernels pytorch.org/blog/helion/... · Posted by u/jarbus
Asking as someone who is really out of the loop: how much of ML development these days touches these “lower level” parts of the stack? I’d expect that by now most of the work would be high level, and the infra would be mostly commoditized.
a recent wave of interest in bitwise equivalent execution had a lot of kernels this level get pumped out.
new attention mechanisms also often need new kernels to run at any reasonable rate
theres definitely a breed of frontend-only ML dev that dominates the space, but a lot novel exploration needs new kernels
brrrrrm commented on John Carmack on mutable variables twitter.com/id_aa_carmack... · Posted by u/azhenley
> Making almost every variable const at initialization is good practice. I wish it was the default, and mutable was a keyword.
It's funny how functional programming is slowly becoming the best practice for modern code (pure functions, no side-effects), yet functional programming languages are still considered fringe tech for some reason.
If you want a language where const is the default and mutable is a keyword, try F# for starters. I switched and never looked back.
one thing I've learned in my career is that escape hatches are one of the most important things in tools made for building other stuff.
dropping down into the familiar or the simple or the dumb is so innately necessary in the building process. many things meant to be "pure" tend to also be restrictive in that regard.
Happy to answer any questions