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diffrax
- Ask HN: What side projects landed you a job?
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[P] Optimistix, nonlinear optimisation in JAX+Equinox!
Optimistix has high-level APIs for minimisation, least-squares, root-finding, and fixed-point iteration and was written to take care of these kinds of subroutines in Diffrax.
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Show HN: Optimistix: Nonlinear Optimisation in Jax+Equinox
Diffrax (https://github.com/patrick-kidger/diffrax).
Here is the GitHub: https://github.com/patrick-kidger/optimistix
The elevator pitch is Optimistix is really fast, especially to compile. It
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Scientific computing in JAX
Sure. So I've got some PyTorch benchmarks here. The main take-away so far has been that for a neural ODE, the backward pass takes about 50% longer in PyTorch, and the forward (inference) pass takes an incredible 100x longer.
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[D] JAX vs PyTorch in 2023
FWIW this worked for me. :D My full-time job is now writing JAX libraries at Google. Equinox for neural networks, Diffrax for differential equation solvers, etc.
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Returning to snake's nest after a long journey, any major advances in python for science ?
It's relatively early days yet, but JAX is in the process of developing its nascent scientific computing / scientific machine learning ecosystem. Mostly because of its strong autodifferentiation capabilities, excellent JIT compiler etc. (E.g. to show off one of my own projects, Diffrax is the library of diffeq solvers for JAX.)
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What's the best thing/library you learned this year ?
Diffrax - solving ODEs with Jax and computing it's derivatives automatically functools - love partial and lru_cache fastprogress - simpler progress bar than tqdm
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PyTorch 2.0
At least prior to this announcement: JAX was much faster than PyTorch for differentiable physics. (Better JIT compiler; reduced Python-level overhead.)
E.g for numerical ODE simulation, I've found that Diffrax (https://github.com/patrick-kidger/diffrax) is ~100 times faster than torchdiffeq on the forward pass. The backward pass is much closer, and for this Diffrax is about 1.5 times faster.
It remains to be seen how PyTorch 2.0 will compare, or course!
Right now my job is actually building out the scientific computing ecosystem in JAX, so feel free to ping me with any other questions.
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Python 3.11 is much faster than 3.8
https://github.com/patrick-kidger/diffrax
Which are neural network and differential equation libraries for JAX.
[Obligatory I-am-googler-my-opinions-do-not-represent- your-employer...]
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Ask HN: What's your favorite programmer niche?
Autodifferentiable programming!
Neural networks are the famous example of this, of course -- but this can be extended to all of scientific computing. ODE/SDE solvers, root-finding algorithms, LQP, molecular dynamics, ...
These days I'm doing all my work in JAX. (E.g. see Equinox or Diffrax: https://github.com/patrick-kidger/equinox, https://github.com/patrick-kidger/diffrax). A lot of modern work is now based around hybridising such techniques with neural networks.
I'd really encourage anyone interested to learn how JAX works under-the-hood as well. (Look up "autodidax") Lots of clever/novel ideas in its design.
fontsource
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Variable Fonts
Fontsource[0] is also an easy way to self-host variable fonts via NPM packages.
[0] https://fontsource.org/?variable=true
- Fontsource
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Ask HN: What side projects landed you a job?
A few years ago, while I was still in high school, I began learning how to create websites purely for fun. One thing I found to be tedious was self-hosting fonts, with existing solutions to improve it completely abandoned. Consequently, I decided to learn a bit more about JavaScript by rewriting and improving these abandoned projects which led to the creation of Fontsource[0].
This project has undoubtedly set of a series of impactful events in my life, and I attribute many of my successes to it. I've had opportunities to network with numerous amazing engineers through it, leading to a part-time role and multiple internships. Companies that approached me for support also wanted to keep in touch! I also graduate this year and I am going with a full-time role from one of the aforementioned internships.
While I acknowledge my circumstances are extremely fortunate, I genuinely believe that having open source projects early on in your career can significantly contribute to standing out as a developer.
[0] https://fontsource.org
- Font Source – a privacy-friendly Google Fonts alternative
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The new Google Fonts: find what you’re looking for
Tip: more privacy friendly Google alternatives are available and super easy to use: https://fontsource.org/
I switched most of my sites to use it and I’ve been quite happy so far.
No need to leak data to Google.
For weirder stuff (e.g. https://tidings.potato.horse) I use sites like dafont.com and convert fonts using Font Squirrel.
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justFoundOutGoogleFontsCollectsUserIPs
Fontsource publishes all Google Fonts fonts as NPM packages, allowing you to easily import them with modern bundlers.
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Just launched my first svelte project! An opensource alternative to Google Fonts, with a focus on variable fonts. Coming from a React background Svelte has been absolutely amazing to work with.
I personally like using FontSource for this, they have some extra fonts beyond Google Fonts too
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Using Fontsource With 11ty
I stumbled upon fontsource.org the other day and I found the idea of installing fonts from npm packages appealing.
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Adding locally hosted Google fonts to your SvelteKit project
To do this with SvelteKit, you can use the Fontsource project. They host all of the Google Fonts catalogue as NPM packages.
- Self-host Open Source fonts in neatly bundled NPM packages
What are some alternatives?
deepxde - A library for scientific machine learning and physics-informed learning
Google Fonts - Font files available from Google Fonts, and a public issue tracker for all things Google Fonts
tiny-cuda-nn - Lightning fast C++/CUDA neural network framework
fontfaceobserver - Webfont loading. Simple, small, and efficient.
flax - Flax is a neural network library for JAX that is designed for flexibility.
juliamono - repository for JuliaMono, a monospaced font with reasonable Unicode support.
juliaup - Julia installer and version multiplexer
netlify-menubar - Netlify menubar app to receive build information or trigger new builds
equinox - Elegant easy-to-use neural networks + scientific computing in JAX. https://docs.kidger.site/equinox/
leerob.io - ✨ My portfolio built with Next.js, Tailwind, and Vercel.
dm-haiku - JAX-based neural network library
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