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    Comment #47067779

    You are right, it is fixed now!

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    Comment #47067776

    Thanks, fixed!

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    Comment #47066753

    We are excited about the Tinker API, it exposes the primitives forward_backward, optim_step, sample and checkpoints of an LLM as a REST API, which can be used to implement pretty m…

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    Comment #19096718

    If you are interested in learning more about this, there is also a recent PyData talk: https://rise.cs.berkeley.edu/blog/modin-talk-at-pydata-nyc-2...

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    Comment #16018323

    One of the authors here! We are glad you like it! The project is indeed driven by the authors listed on the paper and also the knowledge and experience that was accumulated in the …

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    Comment #15486838

    There are two considerations here. (1) Python single threaded performance: Here, most of the libraries we are using are implemented in C++ (like numpy, TensorFlow, Cython to speed …

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    Comment #15485490

    For Ray, the main use case at the moment is parallel/distributing machine learning algorithms, people have been using it for parallelizing MC(MC) style applications, doing hyperpar…

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    Comment #15485272

    Author here. For CapnProto see the answer to the other comment above. Concerning dill, we have been using it for serializing function and classes (and then switched to cloudpickle …

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    Comment #15485160

    Author here. From our perspective, CapnProto has similar characteristics as Flatbuffers and the reasons to prefer Arrow over it are the same: We would need to develop a mapping fro…