That's a fantastic idea; I wish I'd thought of it. With it, virtually any
library used by the Python ecosystem (and most Python systems are driven by 3rd
party libs) becomes available.
I wonder what this would look like? Parsing the spec and interfacing to, say
claw or cl-autowrap are the first things that jump out to me. It would have to
gracefully deal with C++. These days nearly all libraries are written in C++
first and might have a C library as an afterthought.
On Tuesday, August 15, 2023 at 12:40:57 AM GMT+8, Robert Goldman
<[email protected]> wrote:
Something that would be hugely valuable to the CL community, IMO, would be a
tool that at least partially automates translation of a Python API spec for an
external library into something that CFFI could process.
I don't know how Python talks to C, C++, or Fortran, so I don't know how easy
this would be, but if it was possible, it would be hugely valuable to
(relatively) easily adapt arbitrary Python libraries.
Best,
R
On 14 Aug 2023, at 5:15, Steven Nunez wrote:
I'd be interesting in working on such a library, whether it be native or CFFI.
The basics shouldn't be that difficult if we can find a C library. @Burton (or
others), contact me for a discussion; it would be good to exchange notes in any
case.
On Saturday, August 12, 2023 at 10:13:41 PM GMT+8, Robert P. Goldman
<[email protected]> wrote:
I don’t have experience with GPT myself, but I would guess there’s a Python
interface, in which case you could drive it through py4cl (note: avoid py4cl2
for now, it is not yet ready for prime time).
There are one or two minor oddities to learn in py4cl, but by and large I have
found it works quite well.
--
Robert P. Goldman
On August 12, 2023 at 00:06:29, Marco Antoniotti ([email protected])
wrote:
Hi Burton
no. I have not heard of anything similar, except maybe from Mark Watson (who
should be on these lists - markwatson.com). I became interested in them as
well.
In any case, the issue is whether you are interested in a CL implementation or
a binding to this or that C/C++ library (yeah! I refrain from mentioning
languages susceptible to the 'irsabol attack' 😑 ).
All the best
Marco
On Sat, Aug 12, 2023 at 2:38 AM Burton John Samograd (as burtonjohnsamograd at
protonmail dot com) <[email protected]> wrote:
Hello,
I was wondering if anybody on this list (or anybody you might know) has heard
or had experience with a Common Lisp "Transformer" library, as in Transformer
from Generalized Pre-trained Transformer (GPT).
I'd like to do some experimentation and was wondering if there was any previous
work that has been done that can be used.
--Burton John
[email protected]http://burton.samograd.ca/
2023
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From: Burton John Samograd <[email protected]>
Date: On Friday, August 11th, 2023 at 5:33 PM
Subject: Common Lisp Transformer Libraries
To: [email protected] <[email protected]>
Hello,
I was wondering if anybody on this list (or anybody you might know) has heard
or had experience with a Common Lisp "Transformer" library, as in Transformer
from Generalized Pre-trained Transformer (GPT).
I'd like to do some experimentation and was wondering if there was any previous
work that has been done that can be used.
Thank you.
--Burton John [email protected]
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