algoneer VS ParlAI

I gave a presentation on type checking at the EuroPython 2017 where I also investigated how many Python projects really use type checking, I present the results at the end (35 minutes in):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vM2Zoy4Sxhk&t=2181s

My conclusion was that only a small fraction of projects really used them, there were a lot of projects that had type checks in their code but only in "homeopathic" doses.

I started using them for some of my Python projects as well (e.g https://github.com/algoneer/algoneer) and while I find them useful I think they're not as useful as a "real" type system in a fully typed language like Golang. Still, they're very useful for discovering simple mistakes that would only show up in unit testing otherwise.

You can also "misuse" them for other purposes, at the end of the presentation I e.g. show how you can implement software contracts with them. Of course this would wreck a type checker like mypy, so don't do that in your codebase. That's probably also one of my critiques as the annotation syntax can in principle be used for anything, but mypy and other tools are not able to deal with code that does that.

Do you have https://github.com/facebookresearch/ParlAI installed? Looks like they're doing something weird with their flake8 config.

I would suspect similar to blenderbot2 from meta and parl.ai.

There's quite a few open-source Reinforcement Learning challenges that you can explore with modest amounts of compute in order to build some experience training RL models, for example the Nethack Learning Environment, Atari, Minigrid, etc. For me personally, I had only worked in NLP / dialogue for years but got into RL by implementing Random Network Distillation models for NetHack. It's a fun area that definitely has its own unique challenges vs other domains. -AM

I am intrigued by the model because it develops long term memory that it can access for future conversations which you can see in more detail on the model cards.

Continue reading | Check out the paper, project, github link and reference article.

I have tried to use parl.ai in the past. I actually wanted to play with blenderbot 1.0. I kinda hate this library because it isn't exactly quick and easy to learn. I ended up using the Huggingface version.

You probably meant to link this: https://github.com/facebookresearch/ParlAI/blob/main/project...