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New comment by phissenschaft in "Emacs-copilot: Large language model code completion for Emacs"

phissenschaft — Sun, 31 Dec 2023 23:12:34 +0000

I use Emacs for most of my work related to coding and technical writing. I've been running phind-v2-codellama and openhermes using ollama and gptel, as well as github's copilot. I like how you can send an arbitrary region to an LLM and ask for things about it. Of course the UX is in early stage, but just imagine if a foundation model can take all the context (i.e. your orgmode files and open file buffers) and can use tools like LSP.

New comment by phissenschaft in "916 Days of Emacs"

phissenschaft — Fri, 14 Apr 2023 03:38:06 +0000

I just stopped worry and succumbed to https://github.com/emacs-evil/evil. Now I only mostly just fiddle with orgmode configs to generate nice looking HTML and PDFs.

New comment by phissenschaft in "Spack – scientific software package manager for supercomputers, Linux, and macOS"

phissenschaft — Sat, 25 Mar 2023 22:10:05 +0000

Been using Spack for a while to manage my machine learning package dependencies. It allows me to quickly spin up projects with complex dependencies (my current environment has 329 packages built ...). It's pretty easy to use with containers. It allows me to evaluate and migrate to different PyTorch/CUDA versions easily.

Why Is the Wealthfront Cash Account APY So High?

phissenschaft — Sun, 13 Nov 2022 17:46:15 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wealthfront.com/blog/why-is-wealthfront-cash-account-apy-so-high/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33585331

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New comment by phissenschaft in "I tricked myself into working out 3 times per week"

phissenschaft — Sun, 04 Sep 2022 17:32:37 +0000

Really happy for the author! I also find gamification and vanity help. Strava/Peloton are good places to keep scores and brag about what you've done.

New comment by phissenschaft in "Launch HN: Sematic (YC S22) – Open-source framework to build ML pipelines faster"

phissenschaft — Thu, 11 Aug 2022 06:34:47 +0000

Congratulation on the launch! Best wishes! Would absolutely love to dive into it soon.

Here are some high level questions:

- How does it handle failure of individual tasks in the pipeline? - What if the underlying jobs (e.g. training or dataset extraction or metrics evaluation) need to run outside the k8s cluster (e.g. running bare-metal, slurm, sagemaker, or even a separate k8s cluster)? - How does caching work if multiple pipeline can share some common components (e.g. dataset extraction)?

New comment by phissenschaft in "Ray: A Distributed Framework for Emerging AI Applications"

phissenschaft — Mon, 05 Jul 2021 22:54:03 +0000

Is there a plan to tighter integrate into k8s, potentially in a multi-cluster/federated setting. It's a lot easier to get buy-ins for ray adoption from infra teams where k8s is the centralized compute substrate.

New comment by phissenschaft in "Ray: A Distributed Framework for Emerging AI Applications"

phissenschaft — Sun, 04 Jul 2021 21:29:04 +0000

Great work and kudos to the Ray team! It's definitely a fresh look with a lot of lessons learned from previous generations (e.g. spark).

There are a few nice features I wish Ray would eventually get to.

On the user experience side, it would be nice to have task level logs: often time it's easier for users to reason at task level, especially the task is a facade that triggers other complicated library/subprocess calls.

For the scheduler, if there's more native support for sharded/bundled/partitioned tasks and https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/gcp/no-shard-left-beh...

New comment by phissenschaft in "Cue, an open-source data validation language"

phissenschaft — Tue, 15 Jun 2021 15:23:37 +0000

Wonder if https://hydra.cc/ would be a better choice

New comment by phissenschaft in "Using Argo to Train Predictive Models at FlightAware"

phissenschaft — Thu, 10 Jun 2021 21:36:59 +0000

Really like the flexibility provided by Argo. It's the missing workflow concept from Kubernetes.

New comment by phissenschaft in "PatchELF: Simple utility for modifying existing ELF executables and libraries"

phissenschaft — Fri, 07 May 2021 20:27:47 +0000

Super useful for updating rpath!

New comment by phissenschaft in "Apache Arrow 4.0"

phissenschaft — Wed, 05 May 2021 17:23:49 +0000

Great to see Ballista in arrow https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/9723

New comment by phissenschaft in "On Repl-Driven Programming"

phissenschaft — Sun, 03 Jan 2021 18:28:17 +0000

My concept of a "REPL" is mostly defined by emacs. You would have a buffer with a code file, with an active jupyter kernel with the correct dependencies loaded in it. Then one would send any active region with `C-c C-c` and get timely feedback.

With this mode https://github.com/nnicandro/emacs-jupyter one can connect to a jupyter kernel running locally or remote (would mostly prefer SSH port forwarding or kubectl port-forward the remote jupyter server). It makes life so much easier to interact with cloud environment (e.g. spark).

New comment by phissenschaft in "Talking out loud to yourself is a technology for thinking"

phissenschaft — Sun, 27 Dec 2020 21:16:53 +0000

Very helpful to have a conversation with oneself. I'd sometimes try different accents to create an illusion of someone else talking.

New comment by phissenschaft in "Interactive C++ for Data Science"

phissenschaft — Thu, 24 Dec 2020 04:23:55 +0000

I find being able to directly evaluate code snippets via attaching to a jupyter kernel (running locally or in cloud) is one of the most important development efficiency booster.

New comment by phissenschaft in "Controversies and Challenges in fMRI (2018)"

phissenschaft — Sun, 28 Jun 2020 21:33:50 +0000

Using fMRI to study brain functions is akin to studying US road transportation with only CO2 emission map.

New comment by phissenschaft in "What Is Nix?"

phissenschaft — Thu, 21 May 2020 04:42:30 +0000

Wondering if folks would prefer spack (https://spack.io/) given its heavy adoption in the HPC community.

New comment by phissenschaft in "Configs suck? Try a real programming language"

phissenschaft — Mon, 06 Apr 2020 02:59:31 +0000

https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2898444

""" ... embrace the inevitability of programmatic configuration, and maintain a clean separation between computation and data. The language to represent the data should be a simple, data-only format such as JSON or YAML, and programmatic modification of this data should be done in a real programming language, where there are well-understood semantics, as well as good tooling ... """