REBOL Forum Recent REBOL Forum Topics http://rebolforum.com AI and modern tools Is anyone here running a system with multiple 3090s? That still seems like the best price-performance GPU for local inference, with CUDA support. Or is anyone getting surprising results per dollar with some other option?, Posted by: Nick 14-Feb-2025/8:02:42-8:00 http://rebolforum.com/index.cgi?f=printtopic&topicnumber=46&archiveflag=new What I'm using now instead of Rebol Here are the exported project zip files for all the Youtube examples above, which you can download and import directly into a Jam.py installation on your server (all the code, schema, everything required to run each of the complete application examples demonstrated in the Youtube videos, on your own server): https://com-pute.com/nick/gemini_1.0.0_5.4.136_2025-02-12_14-15-48.zip https://com-pute.com/nick/jam_form_with_api_and_repeating_panel_examples--1.0.0_5.4.136_2025-02-10_05-58-12.zip https://com-pute.com/nick/jam_forum_1.0.0_5.4.136_2025-02-05_16-17-27.zip https://com-pute.com/nick/jampy_html_landing_1.0.0_5.4.136_2025-01-30_17-56-52__with_textarea_which_displays_column_values_from_task_grid.zip https://com-pute.com/nick/jampy_my_demo_1.0.0_5.4.136_2025-01-27_05-27-53.zip https://com-pute.com/nick/xlsx_importer--jam_project_1.0.0_5.4.136_2025-01-19_20-57-10.zip https://com-pute.com/nick/files_1.0.0_5.4.136_2025-02-02_17-30-00.zip , Posted by: Nick 12-Feb-2025/16:09:45-8:00 http://rebolforum.com/index.cgi?f=printtopic&topicnumber=45&archiveflag=new Nick: Anvil for Enterprise Database Development? I've spent so many thousands of hours of my life working with so many hundreds of software development tools and paradigms. It's always amazing to see how challenges shift in different environments. In the end, I always evaluate which tools enable the greatest overall productivity and achievement, in the context of living with the best possible quality of life, and making the greatest possible positive difference in the world and the lives of the people around me. Anvil has far and away outperformed any other software tool I've ever used, by those measurements., Posted by: Nick 13-Jan-2025/0:22:03-8:00 http://rebolforum.com/index.cgi?f=printtopic&topicnumber=44&archiveflag=new REBOL dialect Meta on Bluesky social network Bluesky turned out to be a great strategic choice. It has exploded last year to almost 26 million users by now: www.blueskyusercount.com Our new year's greet and resolution: bsky.app/profile/language.metaproject.frl/post/3leoq3qexjs2n, Posted by: Kaj 1-Jan-2025/9:43:47-8:00 http://rebolforum.com/index.cgi?f=printtopic&topicnumber=43&archiveflag=new Meta in Vintage Computer Christmas Challenge 2024 The emphasis was on Happy holidays and the smile emoji :), Posted by: Nick 30-Dec-2024/0:35:49-8:00 http://rebolforum.com/index.cgi?f=printtopic&topicnumber=42&archiveflag=new Is anyone here doing any production work with Rust? A few months ago I had a great experience using the Rust toolchain to compile SQLPage for older versions of Windows, Linux, and even termux on Android. Rust is getting a lot of attention, and I see it being used more in projects/tools that I'm interested in (river reverse proxy, for example: https://www.memorysafety.org/blog/river-release). Has anyone here used Rocket web framework and SeaORM or Diesel, or Rust in general, for any projects?, Posted by: Nick 29-Dec-2024/8:00:09-8:00 http://rebolforum.com/index.cgi?f=printtopic&topicnumber=41&archiveflag=new Has anyone used Rebol to participate in AdventofCode? Interesting. It looks more like bash scripting than Rebol yes. I used Meta to crack some of the problems. Did not yet post my solutions. My day1 solution part 1&2 is 'only' 150 lines, but it has a lot of air like comments, prints, emptylines, declarations on seperate lines that could be combined etc., Posted by: iArnold 24-Dec-2024/4:03:21-8:00 http://rebolforum.com/index.cgi?f=printtopic&topicnumber=40&archiveflag=new Massive Ecosystems are a Sign of Failure and Not Success About ecosystems, today I finished a deduplication process that involved a SQL query which performs approximately 5.5 billion+ computations on the current database size, comparing 8 fields which include dates and other values, with 7 multipart logic evaluations, for a total of at very least 630 trillion CPU operations. For a single consumer grade CPU core running at 100 GFLOPS, that should take ~1.8 hours. Because this project relies on a data center where they employ at least 64 cores to run the SQL server machines, that deduplication process only takes ~100 seconds to complete. The deduplication routine only gets run a few times a year, so that sort of power use is perfectly justified. The amount of work that would have been required to implement all that from scratch, to use all that hardware effectively would have required, ahem, a little more than writing a SQL query of a few dozen lines, and integrating it with an Anvil front end. The half century of SQL RDBMS optimization has turned out to be useful :) In another project this week, a client decided to purchase an in-house clone of their HCHB database, in order to automate Blue Cross insurance authorization requests. HCHB only offers that product as a MSSQL database, which is all super easy to integrate with SQLAlchemy and Anvil. And my client will also use SQLPage to write one-off UIs and APIs herself. This will save her a minimum $100k per year, and more importantly, will dramatically improve the workload and daily quality of life for 40+ employees. Again in this situation, it's not about the programming language, it's about the tools and libraries which enable integration of RDBMS and other ecosystem tools. BTW, I got a kick out of watching Dave Plummer write AI scripts in Python, to make use of CUDA: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHBr8hekCzg He even makes the point that to do virtually anything useful with AI, CUDA is essential. Again, that's all about leveraging ecosystem tools - not the sort of thing that can just get re-created equivalently with any high-level language. Python is the native interface language of CUDA. But databases can be used in just about any mainstream language. I don't have any interest in re-creating Postgres. It's about making use of the millions/billions of hours of human work that have been poured into building solid lower level tools in connected ecosystems, which can't be duplicated easily., Posted by: Nick 21-Dec-2024/23:57:21-8:00 http://rebolforum.com/index.cgi?f=printtopic&topicnumber=39&archiveflag=new AltScript I don't know if Carl would have done that. He was more focused on his own things and the core language. Yet, the REBOL implementation prevents deeply integrating external data types. And we made Syllable to compare to Amiga OS: syllable.metaproject.frl Admittedly, Syllable carries a mess with it because it is largely POSIX/Linux/GNU compatible, but the core OS is an improvement over Amiga OS., Posted by: Kaj 4-Dec-2024/21:42:44-8:00 http://rebolforum.com/index.cgi?f=printtopic&topicnumber=38&archiveflag=new Is anyone here using WASM? All very interesting because it's so far from the scope and type of work I currently do (database backed UI). I hope your projects are going well! At some point I'd still be interested in contributing to database connectivity, authentication, etc., if/when that gets in your roadmap and I get a break from current projects., Posted by: Nick 16-Nov-2024/12:24:22-8:00 http://rebolforum.com/index.cgi?f=printtopic&topicnumber=37&archiveflag=new