Ask HN: Machine Learning Engineers, what do you do at work?

Re:Ask HN: Machine Learning Engineers, what do you do at work? by llm_trw on Saturday June 08, 2024 @08:33AM (#40617124)

Here's what getting PyTorch built reproducibly looks like: https://hpc.guix.info/blog/2021/09/whats-in-a-package/

Since then the whole python ecosystem has gotten worse.

We are building towers on quicksand.

It's not about python, it's about people who don't care about dependencies.

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Re:Ask HN: Machine Learning Engineers, what do you do at work? by hkt on Saturday June 08, 2024 @10:39AM (#40617821)

Dependency management is just.. hard. It is one of the things where everything relies upon it but nobody thinks "hey, this is my responsibility to improve" so it is left to people who have the most motivation, academic posts, or grant funding. This is roughly the same problem that led to heartbleed for OpenSSL.

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