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> Those people/use-cases don't care about the GIL. This is not true. The primary funding and motivation for the GIL removal work comes from the numerical computing community. The P…

I'm curious: what's sorts of things were bad about libtorch? What did you see in this release that you thought was an improvment?

That doesn't seem very fair. They link a docs folder and an overview document, neither of which require that the user read code to get a good idea of the library's contents. That s…

Perhaps you missed the "What's in it" section while skimming the readme? :) >Because of folly's fairly flat structure, the best way to see what's in it is to look at the headers in…

EternalTerminal[1] was mentioned in a comment below. It supports port forwarding, and other goodies like native scrollback, at the cost of latency on laggy connections (because it …

Watch David's talk coming up ( https://www.facebook.com/pytorch/ ), it will contain some answers :)

Aside from its merits as a database, SQLite is also a great example of good documentation[0], thorough testing[1], and focused development. It's something that all library maintain…

I don't know if it's correct to characterize Github's model as a power grab. The design of Github definitely pushes things in a more centralized direction, but I think that approac…

Not really related, but a quick plug for the work that Mercurial is doing to port substantial portions of its main binary to Rust: https://www.mercurial-scm.org/wiki/OxidationPlan …

This is so awesome. Makes me really excited for the future of PyTorch—being able to define symbolic deriviatives in a python subset is super cool

The best explanation is coincidence, I think. I have direct knowledge of two of the incidents in the past few weeks, and they have completely unrelated causes. Sometimes you just g…

I think it's cool to see projects like this! It's sort of like an "alternate history" for a C++ programming model. I agree that it doesn't seem immediately useful for most projects…

Glad to see the team really embrace the nitty-gritty of keeping the open-source community healthy. React Native is a project with a lot of potential that's taken a few high-profile…

I'm not second-guessing the technical that the Times made here (I'm sure it made sense given their constraints), but I do wonder if these kinds of in-house general-purpose language…

This is a great piece of software development history! Very interesting to see what things the industry seems to have improved on (somewhat) and what things we still struggle with.…

Breaking changes are highlighted here: https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch/releases#breaking-changes

I'd be interested in a direct comparison with similar efforts undertaken by existing frameworks; for example Torch Script[1], which aims to produce a language which shares a syntac…

I'm so glad this this article (unlike so many other representations of Jeff and Sanjay's work) does not overlook Sanjay's contributions. I don't know what it is; maybe Sanjay is a …

> What model of human cognition are you claiming is "incorrect"? And is it the one presented by Marcus, or are you strawmanning? The model of human cognition I'm referring to is th…

I seem to have missed the Twitter spat that precipitated this essay, but I don't quite buy the larger argument he's making. We should judge approaches to AI based on their results,…

I actually like the new website. I think the primary barrier to Rust adoption now is something along the lines of "my organization doesn't use it"—this website is clearly geared to…

This is cool. I especially appreciate the disclaimer at the end: >> We can’t stress enough how important it is to measure your applications and the tools used to measure those appl…

A REPL is an incredibly useful tool for all sorts of development, "real" or not. But I share the author's frustration with intros to functional programming that take advantage of a…