mamba VS conda

> how the recall can grow unbounded with no tradeoff

this? https://github.com/state-spaces/mamba/issues/175

If you want to learn this stuff as a computer engineer, you can read the code here [0]. I find the math quite helpful.

[0]: https://github.com/state-spaces/mamba

This model was discussed recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38522428 It's a new kind of ML model architecture that can be used instead of a transformer in LLMs.

See also the original repo from the paper: https://github.com/state-spaces/mamba

[2] - https://github.com/state-spaces/mamba

Out of curiosity, does anyone feel as though there's any benefit to linking to reddit when we can link to whatever the link is? I for one do not click the link and read discussion on reddit - if I wanted that sort of discussion, I would browse there, not HN.

The library is compatible with any auto-regressive model, not transformers. To prove our point we integrated Mamba, a new state-space model architecture, to the library. Try it out!

I ran the NanoGPT of Karparthy replacing Self-Attention with Mamba on his TinyShakespeare Dataset and within 5 minutes it started spitting out the following:

You might have come across the paper Mamba paper in the last days, which was the first attempt at scaling up state space models to 2.8B parameters to work on language data.

Python's venv module is officially recommended for creating virtual environments since Python 3.5 comes packaged with your Python installation. While there still are additional older tools available, such as conda and virtualenv, if you are new to virtual environments, it is best to use venv now.

conda's dependency solver solves a harder problem than pip's. This quote alludes to it "Conda will never be as fast as pip, so long as we're doing real environment solves and pip satisfies itself only for the current operation." (from https://github.com/conda/conda/issues/7239). Thus mamba was created to improve performance and now conda is bringing in that performance boost.

The other challenge I ran into sometimes was that if I was running a lower memory/storage Codespace instance, when I tried to use Conda from the command line to modify environments, the process would be killed after a few seconds. This turns out to be related to some performance issues Conda has that make it consume a lot of memory when trying to work with the conda-forge installation channel. You can always then just increase the size of the Codespace your are working with (just go to your Codespaces list and use the triple dots to change the settings for a Codespace).

It's worth noting that [ana]conda isn't even fully compatible yet with 3.11 (you can use it to create 3.11 environments--and you really should rather than waiting on relying on the system python--but conda itself can only run on 3.10.

It took some time but as great Christmas present Miniconda was finally released with Python 3.10!

The September update broke it.

According to this this issue is high on their priority list (whatever that means).