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 <rpgoldman@sift.net> 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.

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Robert P. Goldman

On August 12, 2023 at 00:06:29, Marco Antoniotti (marco.antoniotti@unimib.it) 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) <lisp-hug@lispworks.com> 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.

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Burton John Samograd
2023

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From: Burton John Samograd <burtonjohnsamograd@protonmail.com>
Date: On Friday, August 11th, 2023 at 5:33 PM
Subject: Common Lisp Transformer Libraries
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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.

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Burton John Samograd
2023

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