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. --  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 maybefrom Mark Watson (who should be on these lists - markwatson.com).  I becameinterested in them as well. In any case, the issue is whether you are interested in a CLimplementation or a binding to this or that C/C++ library (yeah! Irefrain from mentioning languages susceptible to the 'irsabolattack'  😑 ). All the best Marco On Sat, Aug 12, 2023 at 2:38 AMBurton John Samograd (as burtonjohnsamograd at protonmail dot com)<lisp-hug@lispworks.com>wrote: Hello, I was wondering if anybody on this list  (or anybody youmight know) has heard or had experience with a Common Lisp"Transformer" library, as in Transformer from GeneralizedPre-trained Transformer (GPT). I'd like to do some experimentation and was wondering if therewas any previous work that has been done that can be used. --BurtonJohn Samogradburtonjohnsamograd@protonmail.comhttp://burton.samograd.ca/ 2023 Sent with Proton Mail secureemail. ------- Forwarded Message ------- From: Burton John Samograd <burtonjohnsamograd@protonmail.com> Date: On Friday, August 11th, 2023 at 5:33 PM Subject: Common Lisp Transformer Libraries To: pro@common-lisp.net <pro@common-lisp.net> Hello, I waswondering 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 liketo do some experimentation and was wondering if there was anyprevious work that has been done that can be used. Thankyou. --BurtonJohn Samogradburtonjohnsamograd@protonmail.com2023 Sent with Proton Mail secureemail.

That's a fantastic idea; I wish I'd thought of it.  With it, virtually any library used by the Python ecosystem (and most Python systems are driven by 3rd party libs) becomes available. I wonder what this would look like?  Parsing the spec and interfacing to, say claw or cl-autowrap are the first things that jump out to me.  It would have to gracefully deal with C++.  These days nearly all libraries are written in C++ first and might have a C library as an afterthought. On Tuesday, August 15, 2023 at 12:40:57 AM GMT+8, Robert Goldman <rpgoldman@sift.net> wrote: 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. --  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. --Burton John Samogradburtonjohnsamograd@protonmail.comhttp://burton.samograd.ca/ 2023 Sent with Proton Mail secure email. ------- Forwarded Message ------- From: Burton John Samograd <burtonjohnsamograd@protonmail.com> Date: On Friday, August 11th, 2023 at 5:33 PM Subject: Common Lisp Transformer Libraries To: pro@common-lisp.net <pro@common-lisp.net> 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. --Burton John Samogradburtonjohnsamograd@protonmail.com2023 Sent with Proton Mail secure email.