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I continue to build my London based monthly directed-exploration LLM days where we try to collaboratively push through a benchmark. We're doing ARC AGI 2026 again in a couple of we…

I've spent 6 months building a network of curious LLM hackers in London who want to push the edge of what we can do. This Friday we pull GPT apart and rebuild bits by hand. A few w…

+1 Merlin. I also stop and do a few minutes with Duolingo in the park, then take a breath and just listen to the wind and birdsong.

There's a profiler cell magic for Notebooks which helps identify if you run out of VRAM (it says what runs on CPU and GPU). There's an open PR to turn on low-VRAM reporting as a di…

Thanks :-) I use it for all my talks and finally decided I'd better start sharing it a bit. It really is useful to understand the memory cost of things like Pandas operations

I'm the co-author of High Performance Python, Micha and I are working on the 3rd ed (for 2025). Lots of bits of the book came from my past conference talks, they're available here …

@munhitsu gave me a demo at the weekend (I'm on Android and it is iPhone only), it seemed pretty slick and very easy to use, though I confess not something I personally need right …

I've just spent the morning uninstalling and reinstalling different versions of Nvidia driver (Linux) to get nvcc back for llama.cpp after Linux Mint did an update - I had CUDA 12.…

Don't forget that a sequence of numpy operations will likely each allocate their own temporary memory. Numba can often fuse these together, so although the implementation behind nu…

Really Numba will speed up numpy and some scipy (there's partial API coverage) and math based pure python. I think it is unlikely it'd be used away from math problems. As another c…

That's my book :-) Micha and I are working on the 3rd edition right now. Cheers!

How about hyperlinking each title so it can easily be opened in a new tab?

You may want to look sideways to companies such as hedge funds. They have DNN teams and experiment with LLMs, you may find interesting optimisation opportunities with such teams. C…

In the UK I use Redber for beans, I drink decaf (Swiss Water prices) fresh ground in the afternoon and have 2-3 caf cups in the morning. Redber had a wide selection and several roa…

Indeed I was the one who got confused by the name! Thanks for attending the discussion Jay and I'm happy to see Daft being discussed here

PyPy uses a modified Mark and Sweep garbage collector, CPython uses Reference Counting. C extensions such as NumPy (and so Pandas, sklearn etc) are compiled expecting Reference Cou…

I use a FLIR One on Android. I've charted internal leaks (where cold air blows in through cracks) and external (where heat escapes through eg old windows). Wait for a cold day (eg …

Hey Ritchie. Re legacy I'm thinking about wider teams in large organisations (eg SWEng system support teams) and IT mandating library upgrade frequency - switching to new libraries…

This https://docs.dask.org/en/stable/spark.html notes "However, Dask is able to easily represent far more complex algorithms and expose the creation of these algorithms to normal u…

I'd argue a little differently. I'm co-author of O'Reilly's High Performance Python book and I've been teaching a course around this for years, often to quants. 1. Pandas if you st…

Can other data scientists comment? I'm 15 years in with python and scientific work. For a lot of years I liked conda but then it got crazy slow. Next I started making conda environ…

With our infant using a digital thermometer in the ear, we routinely observe that the left ear is hotter than the right. We take 3 measurements in each ear, we see a similar varian…

I did some checking and found it hard to get clear numbers. It seems that the majority of cars in London will be compliant but the majority of vans will not be, so business is affe…

I do some of this in data science when I'm giving strategic support to teams. Be aware that managers generally see you as a cost who doesn't bring financial benefit to the team (wh…

I interviewed author Ritchie Vink on my newsletter (NotANumber) some months back, he's smart and the library has a nice design. I still barely know anyone trying it, it did get a w…