PyTorch Native Architecture Optimization: Torchao
by Team PyTorch We’re happy to officially launch torchao, a PyTorch native library that makes models faster and smaller by leveraging low bit dtypes, quantization and sparsity. torchao is an accessible toolkit of techniques written (mostly) in easy to read PyTorch code spanning both inference and training. This blog will help you pick which techniques […]
Sea robins use leg-like fins to taste, navigate seafloor, researchers discover
Sea robin (Prionotus carolinus). Credit: Anik Grearson Sea robins are ocean fish particularly suited to their bottom-dwelling lifestyle. Six leg-like appendages make them so adept at scurrying, digging, and finding prey that other fish tend to hang out with them and pilfer their spoils. A chance encounter in 2019 with these strange, legged fish at […]
Everything you need to know about Python 3.13 – JIT and GIL went up the hill
On October 2nd, 2024, the Python core developers and community will release CPython v3.13.0 – and it’s a doozy. So what makes this release different, and why should you care about it? In short, there are two big changes being made to how Python runs at a core level which have the potential to radically […]
If WordPress is to survive, Matt Mullenweg must be removed
Published: September 27, 2024 This post is a little more hasty than some of my others, in the interest of expedience. I hope you’ll bear with the poorly edited jumble of thoughts. It’s being actively edited. I also usually avoid cussing on my blog, but I do a little here because it feels warranted. Cover […]
A Commentary on the Sixth Edition of the Unix Operating System [pdf]
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Lion Cove: Intel’s P-Core Roars
Intel’s mobile CPUs have undergone massive changes over the past couple generations as Intel defends its laptop market against AMD, Qualcomm, and to a lesser extent Apple. Meteor Lake adopted aggressive chiplet design with separate compute, GPU, SOC, and IO extender tiles. Lunar Lake switches things up again, putting all compute on one tile while […]
Kitchen staff were canaries in the coal mine (2022)
I’ve long been a lurker on r/kitchenconfidential. I did a few brief tours in the service industry when I was younger and my partner used to manage a successful upscale restaurant. If you’ve spent anytime in a restaurant after closing in the last ten years, then you probably aren’t surprised by the continuing labor shortage […]
Python for Inversive and Hyperbolic Geometry
Python for Inversive and Hyperbolic Geometry The Python code available on this page is a collection of classes and support functions for visualizing inversive and hyperbolic geometry, with the hyperbolic examples utilizing the Poincaré disc model. For more online information on hyperbolic geometry see here. I was prompted to develop this software while reading […]
Megalopolis is baffling and plainly nuts – but worth it
Megalopolis, which draws parallels between the fall of the Roman empire and modern-day America, is a film by Francis Ford Coppola — and it couldn’t, in fact, be more by Francis Ford Coppola if it tried. He wrote, produced, directed and self-financed it ($120 million; ouch) and even found the time to be its greatest […]
Will Plants Grow on the Moon?
Explore Three humble plants from Earth will soon travel to a new home on the moon. The plants—a mustard cress, a type of brassica, and a duckweed that grows in ponds—are part of the LEAF project, and will be placed on the moon’s surface when NASA’s Artemis III mission arrives there in the near future—possibly […]