Python packaging is coming along quite good
What's up in the Python community? – April 2023
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Re: What's up in the Python community? – April 2023
#12I was browsing the most popular pip packages recently and was also downright shocked how much AI stuff is up at the top. I will be very curious if much of these things are still popular or relevant in a year.
By volume of different projects probably not, but by usage probably. Once winners get decided and paths get treaded the ecosystem will probably be smaller but I bet the user count will be bigger.
Look, even if you're the most biggest skeptic of all the AI stuff you can still do useful things with it that you couldn't before like present full-English interfaces and get embeddings for arbitrary text which is a leap compared to word2vec for search. I can dm my discord bot a picture of an appointment confirmation text and it with OCR + LLm it just schedules the event in my calendar. Also by gluing a v8 isolate to the LLm I can give it much more complicated date calculations. My favorite was "If f(n) is the nth Fibonacci number schedule an appointment in f(5) days."
Re: What's up in the Python community? – April 2023
#13I was browsing the most popular pip packages recently and was also downright shocked how much AI stuff is up at the top. I will be very curious if much of these things are still popular or relevant in a year.
By volume of different projects probably not, but by usage probably. Once winners get decided and paths get treaded the ecosystem will probably be smaller but I bet the user count will be bigger. Look, even if you're the most biggest skeptic of all the AI stuff you can still do useful things with it that you couldn't before like present full-English interfaces and get embeddings for arbitrary text which is a leap com…
> you can still do useful things with it that you couldn't before like
> ...
> If f(n) is the nth Fibonacci number schedule an appointment in f(5) days
hmmm
Re: What's up in the Python community? – April 2023
#14I just tried some pre-trained models to classify images, using a CPU, it takes about 10s to 15s per image.
I did not know it was so inefficient.
Re: What's up in the Python community? – April 2023
#15I was browsing the most popular pip packages recently and was also downright shocked how much AI stuff is up at the top. I will be very curious if much of these things are still popular or relevant in a year.
So weird - you really think AI/ML is a flash in the pan when it comes to Python? You realize pytorch, tensorflow, pandas, numpy, scikit-learn are all approaching 10 years on pypi?
Re: What's up in the Python community? – April 2023
#16I just tried some pre-trained models to classify images, using a CPU, it takes about 10s to 15s per image. I did not know it was so inefficient.
Isn’t the problem that you were relying more on the CPU rather than a decent GPU?
Re: What's up in the Python community? – April 2023
#17 I’m bummed out about the ever expanding Python packaging scene.
Re: What's up in the Python community? – April 2023
#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
By volume of different projects probably not, but by usage probably. Once winners get decided and paths get treaded the ecosystem will probably be smaller but I bet the user count will be bigger. Look, even if you're the most biggest skeptic of all the AI stuff you can still do useful things with it that you couldn't before like present full-English interfaces and get embeddings for arbitrary text which is a leap com…
> you can still do useful things with it that you couldn't before like > ... > If f(n) is the nth Fibonacci number schedule an appointment in f(5) days hmmm
That's absolutely not what they said. Let's keep hn better than that.
Re: What's up in the Python community? – April 2023
#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
> you can still do useful things with it that you couldn't before like > ... > If f(n) is the nth Fibonacci number schedule an appointment in f(5) days hmmm
That's absolutely not what they said. Let's keep hn better than that.
It's obviously tongue-in-cheek, but it's also not not what they said.
Re: What's up in the Python community? – April 2023
#20I just tried some pre-trained models to classify images, using a CPU, it takes about 10s to 15s per image. I did not know it was so inefficient.
Would you share some details? This indeed sounds very slow, so I suppose there should be some easy ways to speed things up.
Just to give you an idea of what's possible: A couple years ago I worked on live object recognition & classification (using Python and Tensorflow) and got to about ~30 FPS on an Nvidia Jetson Nano (i.e. using the GPU) and still ~12 FPS on an average laptop (using only the CPU).