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bzurak

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About bzurak

Creator of Wool, a lightweight distributed Python runtime.

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    Comment #48739602

    For those of you unfamiliar with Wool (which I'm assuming is most of you reading this), it's a distributed execution runtime for Python I've been working on that adds parallelism t…

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    Comment #47469619

    I’m not sure why people are assuming I’m pushing for distributed OOP here. Wool is completely unopinionated about how you decide to architect your application - that’s the entire p…

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    Comment #47469573

    So if you wanted to scale, say, a hyperparameter search across a cluster, what would you prefer?

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    Comment #47460423

    I have a feeling people will begin to purposely use slightly incorrect grammar to give the impression they are indeed human in their writing.

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    Comment #47447443

    Wasn’t previously aware of this opinion, but having read it, I can tell you I’m not actually committing this fallacy within the framework- I’m not forcing anyone into making their …

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    Comment #47446481

    Fair enough

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    Comment #47445937

    I think LLMs are incredible tools that I will continue to use unapologetically, but I’m also very particular and not going to be putting my name to AI slop. Those are my genuine th…

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    Comment #47445892

    Not on my watch

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    Comment #47445721

    You mean the cadence where everything is presented in threes? Yeah I hate it too, but beats paying some blogger to do it

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    Comment #47445562

    Sure, my argument is that those concerns should be composable with the distribution layer, not defined by it. There are plenty of different ways to pass data across a network or be…

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    Comment #47445453

    Yeah but... who does that?

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    Comment #47445444

    To be clear, not all of your coroutines become distributed. You explicitly declare what you want executed remotely, and you'll probably want your workers running in a VPC - it's ju…

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    Comment #47445226

    But seriously, I just wanted to have an easy way to parallelize my projects without a bunch of slow, bloated, boilerplate ridden frameworks, and I'm having fun building it. And I m…

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    Comment #47445109

    Is it possible it's both?

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    Comment #47445104

    I'm running this in a trusted environment, I'm not so ambitious as to try to make this some sort of whacky trustless distributed Python runtime. Just a fun project that's been mari…

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    Comment #47445061

    I guess I'm not old enough.

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    Comment #47445032

    For one, it's faster than prefect and ray so I can use it for more stuff without having to import a 10000000 line library.

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    Comment #47376538

    I should add- Wool supports ephemeral worker pools, i.e., pools that are spawned by your application directly that live for the life of the WorkerPool context. The limitation right…

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    Comment #47376317

    I wouldn't say it abstracts the locking mechanisms away - if you need synchronization in your app, it's probably best to leave how that's achieved up to the user - what it does is …