Grumpy

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[–] Grumpy@sh.itjust.works 4 points 7 hours ago

It's not and such content should be banned from memes. But Lemmy has nearly no moderation on validity of content. Tbh, I like Reddit a lot better in many ways except for the asshole admins. It has problems, but still lot better controlled than here.

[–] Grumpy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago

I've already addressed this same argument to the other commenter in length. But if what you say is true, which it is not, then python is not inefficient since it's already equivalent to C. Thus OP point of something being inefficient because it was made in python is wrong.

[–] Grumpy@sh.itjust.works 76 points 2 days ago (18 children)

Wtf pepe is considered alt-right because alt-right uses them sometimes??? I hear they also use English! Maybe English needs to get banned!

[–] Grumpy@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago

Nearly every languages' every core packages are written in C. And almost every higher packages have some amount of C. That doesn't mean we get to say every program is done in C. And if you keep drilling down, everything is just machine lang. And certainly still disproves the OPs point of inefficient python.

Saying it's all done in C hardly even true. Just look at xformers library on GitHub. Only 2.7% of the code is C. And the entire library is about optimizing.

Additionally, vast majority of the great leaps in ML efficiency changes hasn't come from better programmed packages, though they too certainly made big strides. How we calculate itself has changed. That's what makes the greatest optimizations in anything. It doesn't matter what language it is, doing a loop 1000000 times to add 1 is going to be worse performance than just doing 1 multiplied by 1000000. How we calculate, what we choose to give up (such as determinism in some implementations if SDP attention changes) and such makes big differences.

Optimizations also has to be done by someone. Whether that be data scientists or otherwise. The ability for higher level languages to enable them to do so like you say also makes a big difference. If all the programmers had to optimize in C only, we'd still be way behind where we are now in performance.

Just swapping languages doesn't yield better results like OP is implying.

[–] Grumpy@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 days ago

It makes the best example because there's that much more money to be saved.

[–] Grumpy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 days ago (6 children)

What makes you think python is in optimized and bloated?

Did you know vast majority of AI development happening right now is on python? The thing that literally consumes billions of dollars of even-beefier-than-4090 GPUs like A100. Don't you think if they could do this more efficiently and better on C or assembly, they would do it? They would save billions.

Reality is that it makes no benefit to move away from python to lower level languages. There is no poor optimization you seek. In fact if they were to try this in lower level languages, they'll take even longer to optimize and yield worse results.

[–] Grumpy@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 month ago

If people gave me money, I'd just pay bills and put it into savings.

[–] Grumpy@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 month ago

Wrap it up first.

[–] Grumpy@sh.itjust.works 25 points 1 month ago (6 children)

This is amateur advice. You can't lift with your knees for a bulky and squishy item like a body if it's in front of you. If you attempt this, you'll notice that your knees get in the way and you need to reach out a lot and can't lift as a result. Body isn't like gym weights on a perfectly nice to grab steel bar.

If you don't actually have to lift at all, just drag it. And if you do, use a fireman's carry which is designed for carrying unconscious hoomans.

[–] Grumpy@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I haven't figured out what it means.

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