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How a Side Project Became a Crime (in France)
Posted on:August 27, 2024
How open-data work became criminally risky in France under Article 33; context, what is banned, and lessons learned.
Upstreamed: Kernl’s Triton “debugger” lands in OpenAI Triton
Posted on:October 12, 2023
In May 2023 we upstreamed our Python-level interpreter/debugger for Triton kernels to the OpenAI Triton project; here’s what it is, how to use it, and where it helps.
Deep Dive into Kernel Fusion: Accelerating Inference in Llama V2
Posted on:July 20, 2023
The code is available at . Llama, the most widely discussed machine learning model in 2023, has recently received an upgrade with the release of Llama V2. Its new licensing terms have sparked significant excitement…
Pushing open data from inside a legal publisher (2019): two pro bono partnerships in France & Luxembourg
Posted on:January 15, 2020
In 2019 we ran two pro bono partnerships to open up court decisions - with Etalab (the French government’s open data unit, within DINUM) and the Cour de cassation (France’s supreme court), and with Luxembourg’s Prosecutor General - focusing on engineering speedups for anonymization and an end-to-end PoC.
Rapport Cadiet to Article 33: unions, SupraLegem, and the judge‑profiling line
Posted on:April 15, 2019
How the Cadiet mission’s hearings, unions’ positions, and a two‑person side project (SupraLegem) shaped Article 33’s bright line against judge‑profiling.