No lol! :O Perl is legit awesome for anything beyond the most basic bash script. And it's available everywhere. You can get rid of awk, find, and sed, and make life so much easier 😀
@jeremyphoward
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How Does Sonnet 4 Perform in AI Model Comparisons?
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Thanks for sharing these really helpful results. 🙂 how does Sonnet 4 do?
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20-Hour Problem Solving Course Available at fast.ai
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That's a very long story – we ran a >20 hour course on it (as part of a general approach to problem solving) http://
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Notebooks Superior for AI Agents and Human Collaboration
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Notebooks are actually better for agents (and humans), because all the context (docs, tests, and implementation) are co-located, so you know exactly what's going on.
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Internal and External AI Agents Tools for Notebook Editing
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Our internal agents, and some external ones such as Claude Code, have tools to edit notebooks directly. (Although overall we have a totally different approach to agents, and try to avoid Claude Code style approaches on the whole. We like human-as-agent!) Linters should die. :p
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nbdev Documentation Solution for IDE Symbol Lookup
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Yes, sadly the IDE world still doesn't have a solution to this. If you use an nbdev project in a notebook, however, typing `doc(symbol)` links you to the rendered docs for `symbol`. A full index is auto-generated, e.g:
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Matrix Operations Optimization for Neural Networks
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This is burying the lede a bit, which is that with a minor change you can also do ReLU(A @ B) @ C on NxN matrices with N intermediates and no recomputation. (aka: a neural network.)
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nbdev: Jupyter Notebooks as Source Code
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In an nbdev project, the .ipynb files are the source. The .py files state at the top the source file to look at.