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by lp251 395 days ago
wonder if they still train all of their models using Mathematica because it was impossible to get pytorch on the classified systems
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AFAIK that was mostly due to a silly detail about MD5 hashing being restricted on FIPS compliant systems? Or something like that. I'm pretty sure there's an easy workaround(s).
there were a bunch of reasons. couldn’t bring compiled binaries onto the red, so you had to bring the source + all deps onto a machine with no external internet.

it was unpleasant.

Just have Hegseth run PyTorch for them
>pip install *