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New comment by phronimos in "Jimi Hendrix was a systems engineer"

phronimos — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 18:55:59 +0000

There are two definitions of the word according to Merriam-Webster. The second one is used accurately here.

New comment by phronimos in "Jimi Hendrix was a systems engineer"

phronimos — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 01:18:32 +0000

Interesting factoid: modern guitar effects typically have their input jacks on the right-hand side, and output jacks on the left. In this article's guitar rig diagram, the jacks are reversed, but this is accurate: back then, for whatever reason the jacks were reversed on each of these pedals. Modern reissues of the round-enclosure Fuzz Face pedals preserve this pattern despite the reversal of industry trends.

New comment by phronimos in "Nvidia won, we all lost"

phronimos — Sat, 05 Jul 2025 15:13:05 +0000

Are you referring to AI training, prediction/inference, or both? Could you give some examples for what had to be done and why? Thanks in advance.

New comment by phronimos in "Show HN: Wetlands – a lightweight Python library for managing Conda environments"

phronimos — Wed, 28 May 2025 16:21:10 +0000

Conda manages binaries and their native dependencies together, including shared libraries[0]. This offers significant advantages over uv and pip when distributing packages with C extensions, such as dependency resolution that accounts for shared library requirements, and better package isolation.

[0]: https://docs.conda.io/projects/conda-build/en/latest/resourc...

New comment by phronimos in "I don't like NumPy"

phronimos — Thu, 15 May 2025 18:55:27 +0000

Numba is a great option for speeding up (vectorizing) loops and NumPy code, apart from CuPy and JAX. Xarray is also worth trying for tensors beyond 2 dimensions.