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A port of Andrej Karpathy's llama2.c to pure Julia. Works on Llama2 and Andrej's tinyllamas models. REPL mode allows interaction from the Julia console

Julia

How long until we can have Julia wrappers?

This question keeps me up at night, as I presume it does for my colleagues at Julia Computing. Not that switching to a fully commercial model is necessarily a bad thing, but Julia …

See Slide 4 for why it's important to be open source. TL;DR: Researcher A finds things he wants improved in Magma (closed source) but can't. Researcher B tries to write improved FO…

I'll be there for moral support, if I'm allowed to crash!

And the problem with academic funding is that it's really hard to pay people to improve the documentation with those funds.

As Stein explains in the slides: because he couldn't sustainably pay people to work with him on SAGE, and there is only so much you can do alone.

Thanks for the input! Yes, there are at least two separate stages of historical development here. The first is when people realized it was useful to repeat the same operation on di…

Would you happen to have any insight into the question that brought me to go dig through old letters in a library in the first place? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11799143

The paper is about, among other things, the history of the array data structure. It's far too early to advertise, but you can see a very early version on my GitHub account. :) I wa…

Thanks for contributing the transcript! I've started a GitHub repo with a first draft of transcripts for all the letters. https://github.com/jiahao/backus-dijkstra-letters-1979 Any…

The title "This guy’s arrogance takes your breath away" is taken directly from Backus's own description of this collection of letters. I've changed the title to make clearer that i…

I'm genuinely surprised that one would say that Julia is "slowing down in development". Perhaps it's because less press is being generated about Julia? Or that the commit rate has …

Making people think is my favorite part of my job. :)