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RustGPT: A pure-Rust transformer LLM built from scratch

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269 points amazonhut | 1 comments | 15 Sep 25 09:47 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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untrimmed ◴[15 Sep 25 10:33 UTC] No.45248154[source]▶
As someone who has spent days wrestling with Python dependency hell just to get a model running, a simple cargo run feels like a dream. But I'm wondering, what was the most painful part of NOT having a framework? I'm betting my coffee money it was debugging the backpropagation logic.
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ricardobeat ◴[15 Sep 25 11:26 UTC] No.45248416[source]▶
Have you tried uv [1]? It has removed 90% of the pain of running python projects for me.

[1] https://github.com/astral-sh/uv

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mtlmtlmtlmtl ◴[15 Sep 25 13:37 UTC] No.45249600[source]▶
I'm sure it's true and all. But I've been hearing the same claim about all those tools uv is intended to replace, for years now. And every time I try to run any of those, as someone who's not really a python coder, but can shit out scripts in it if needed and sometimes tries to run python software from github, it's been a complete clusterfuck.

So I guess what I'm wondering is, are you a python guy, or are you more like me? because for basically any of these tools, python people tell me "tool X solved all my problems" and people from my own cohort tell me "it doesn't really solve anything, it's still a mess".

If you are one of us, then I'm really listening.

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1. hobofan ◴[15 Sep 25 13:52 UTC] No.45249763[source]▶
I'm one of you.

I'm about the highest tier of package manager nerd you'll find out there, but despite all that, I've been struggling to create/run/manage venvs out there for ages. Always afraid of installing a pip package or some piece of python-based software (that might muck up Python versions).

I've been semi-friendly with Poetry already, but mostly because it was the best thing around at the time, and a step in the right direction.

uv has truely been a game changer. Try it out!