Mastodawn

David McClure Feb 21, 2023

Really liking Polars as a replacement for Pandas, after using it for a ~week on a real project - https://www.pola.rs/. Thoughts so far -

- The speedup over Pandas really is noticeable and meaningful.

- API is more SQL-ish, very similar to Spark. I bet a lot of Spark pipelines could be converted to Polars without much structural change.

- Integrations with other Python packages are somewhat less smooth than Pandas (sklean, seaborn). But, nothing too hard to work around, so far.

Polars, lightning-fast DataFrame library

Polars is a blazingly fast DataFrame library completely written in Rust, using the Apache Arrow memory model. It exposes bindings for the popular Python and soon JavaScript languages. Polars supports a full lazy execution API allowing query optimization.

David McClure Feb 17, 2023

Ryan Moulton Feb 16, 2023

Shibboleths rule every statistical system trained on text. The meaning of a word is deeply coupled to the characteristics of the slice of the people who use it.

It would not surprise me at all if fine tuning to use a lot of emojis is what unleashed the unhingedness characteristic of someone who uses a lot of emojis.

David McClure Feb 12, 2023

Ted Underwood Feb 12, 2023

Two-word prompt: "lenticular night." #midjourney #aiart

David McClure Jan 3, 2023

Jonathan Cheng Jan 3, 2023

Welcome to 2023, where we just go back to treating everything as a language problem, and it might just be better.

https://muse-model.github.io/

Muse: Text-To-Image Generation via Masked Generative Transformers

David McClure Dec 28, 2022

Hi all, first post here! Does anyone know where I might find a big list of nouns that represent physical objects - tree, car, chair, mountain, etc? The bigger and more varied the better. Could that be extracted from something like Wordnet or Wikidata?