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New comment by lol1lol in "AllenNLP will be unmaintained in December"

lol1lol — Mon, 11 Jul 2022 20:59:24 +0000

Last night I was running run_translator.py script and found that their scripts not actually allow people training models from scratch.

But hey, I was able to read the code, fix that small thing that needed to work for my case and ran my experiment.

I could never do that in AllenNLP. Go figure.

New comment by lol1lol in "AllenNLP will be unmaintained in December"

lol1lol — Mon, 11 Jul 2022 20:23:03 +0000

I think you are missing the point.

The hackability quotient of AllenNLP is way low.

I'll give you specific examples where AllenNLP overdid it, while HuggingFace was better just by keeping it simple.

Vocabulary class. HuggingFace just used a python dictionary. I can't think of one person who said they needed higher level abstraction. Turns out a python dictionary is pickle-able, saving to a text file is one line code, while the AbstractSinglettonProxyVocabulary is not and no one wants to care in the first place.

Tokenizer class. HuggingFace just used a python dictionary to return strings and integers. I can't think of one person frustrated by it. It's printable, picklable, and everything in between people can fiddle with. And boy where do I start about AllenNLP's overdoing of Tokenizers.

Trainer class. vs. HuggingFace example scripts. The scripts are just much more readable, tweakable, debuggable etc. HF didn't bother with AbstractBaseTrainer class bs.

It just shows they never understood the playing field.

- First, I don't think anyone thought AllenNLP was a good choice for high performance production systems. Again HuggingFace clearly understood the problem and built a fast tokenizer in Rust.

- A math, physics, linguistics, or even CS PhD student who know basics of coding would prefer bare bone scripts. They just want to hack it off and focus on research. Writing good code is not their objective.

Just my opinion.

New comment by lol1lol in "AllenNLP will be unmaintained in December"

lol1lol — Mon, 11 Jul 2022 15:03:25 +0000

It's one of the overly abstracted libraries. Too hard to tweak something. HuggingFace Transformers did a better job at keeping things simpler.

New comment by lol1lol in "A chat with Ray Dalio"

lol1lol — Mon, 13 Jun 2022 19:22:40 +0000

when has his fund ever outperformed sp500 or has it at least remain uncorrelated?

New comment by lol1lol in "A chat with Ray Dalio"

lol1lol — Mon, 13 Jun 2022 03:23:13 +0000

"We're not in a recession, we're in the early stages of a depression. A depression is a self-feeding liquidity crisis - it's a cash-flow squeeze that occurs when the economy turns down, inventories are being sold, borrowings increased, and liquidity reduced." - Raymond T. Dalio, New York Times, Jun 27, 1982

"For decades the numbers have told us that each time the capacity utilization figure moves over 85 percent, the inflation rate rises, and also that each inflation cycle tends to peak at a higher level than the preceding one. During this inflation cycle, we expect capacity utilization to cross the 85 percent line by early 1985, when the CPI should be running at an annual rate of 7.8 percent and well on its way to a cyclical peak of about 11.5 percent sometime in 1986." - Raymond T. Dalio, New York Times, Jun 17, 1984

Industrial production from Jun 1982 through Jun 1984: http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/graph/?g=rU2

Inflation from Jun 1984 through Jun 1986: http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/graph/?g=rU3

New comment by lol1lol in "Dropbox deletes Rick and Morty creators account for secret TOS violation"

lol1lol — Thu, 09 Jun 2022 14:10:28 +0000

Ironically Twitter feed recommends me this tweet right below Dropbox tweet

https://twitter.com/ResNeXtGuesser/status/153459613350625280...

New comment by lol1lol in "Mark Cuban is tackling out-of-control drug prices"

lol1lol — Tue, 07 Jun 2022 14:37:54 +0000

while its sleazy to not be forthcoming, I've a feeling in general a private competition is better than a US gov. Sometimes it's hard to create right private marketplaces, and healthcare is one of those areas.

New comment by lol1lol in "Ask HN: Should I move to California or Germany as a SWE with 2 small kids?"

lol1lol — Tue, 07 Jun 2022 14:19:23 +0000

Germany.

I ain't even gonna explain it.

New comment by lol1lol in "NPM security update: Attack campaign using stolen OAuth tokens"

lol1lol — Fri, 27 May 2022 17:29:22 +0000

Isn't a decent auth library boilerplate at this point?

New comment by lol1lol in "Unsolved problems in economics"

lol1lol — Tue, 17 May 2022 15:40:29 +0000

What would be a good place for a beginner to start working on a problem related to IO economics of platforms?

I've studied MITx Microeconomics course. It appears undergrad level Micro course, and a background in machine learning and software engineering.

New comment by lol1lol in "Ask HN: How can I learn macroeconomics properly?"

lol1lol — Tue, 03 May 2022 13:22:34 +0000

I suppose investors want to optimize "we told you before, we are right".

New comment by lol1lol in "OPT: Open Pre-trained Transformer Language Models"

lol1lol — Tue, 03 May 2022 13:00:32 +0000

I appreciate that they are releasing their log book detailing the challenges faced.

New comment by lol1lol in "Elegant six-page proof reveals the emergence of random structure"

lol1lol — Tue, 26 Apr 2022 06:25:15 +0000

She was at Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton. It's -the- most elite intellectual society. The top 1% of the 1% academics have to compete for admission. If that doesn't wash away illformed biases, I don't know what can! What she accomplished is no joke!! Huge respect tbh.

New comment by lol1lol in "TurboTax’s fight against free tax filing"

lol1lol — Mon, 18 Apr 2022 19:51:34 +0000

I paid $300 for TurboTax to fill two input boxes because I found the W2-C form too confusing

New comment by lol1lol in "A modern self-referential weight matrix that learns to modify itself"

lol1lol — Wed, 13 Apr 2022 21:29:14 +0000

Hinton et al. self cite. Schmidhuber et al. self cite. One got Turing, the other got angry.

New comment by lol1lol in "Ask HN: Which algorithms based on biological ideas do you know?"

lol1lol — Fri, 08 Apr 2022 15:55:18 +0000

I'm interested to explore GA -- What are some cool GA papers published recently, which research labs focus on it?

New comment by lol1lol in "I changed my mind about advertising"

lol1lol — Thu, 10 Feb 2022 16:00:00 +0000

except I've no control over what I am attending

New comment by lol1lol in "Singapore prime minister Lee Hsien Loong’s Sudoku solver (2018)"

lol1lol — Wed, 02 Feb 2022 21:24:49 +0000

PM Narasimha Rao would speak in the local language of the states he visited during his tenure in politics. After his premiership, wrote a fiction novel indirectly sharing his experience in politics. His skill in language translation helped in climbing the political ladder because so few national politicians could speak more than their regional language.

It's quite amazing that he learned COBOL and BASIC and wrote UNIX programs during his career in politics. He's credited with liberalizing industrial policies that helped Software/IT services industry dramatically grow in the following decade after his tenure.

His secretary BN Yugandhar is the father of Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella.

https://twitter.com/spignal/status/749534530856517632

New comment by lol1lol in "Singapore prime minister Lee Hsien Loong’s Sudoku solver (2018)"

lol1lol — Wed, 02 Feb 2022 15:20:17 +0000

India's Prime Minister PV Narasimha Rao writing computer programs in 1990s

https://princeezraj.medium.com/the-indian-prime-minister-who...

New comment by lol1lol in "Ask HN: How do you start a new career with minimal qualifications?"

lol1lol — Mon, 22 Nov 2021 15:24:19 +0000

If you haven't spent time learning to code, I strongly suggest spending a semester learning Python. I cannot overstate how many windows this alone can open up to you.

I know this is another +20 hours of your time but it's definitely worth it.