Pythia: Open-source framework for multimodal AI models(code.fb.com)

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Pythia: Open-source framework for multimodal AI models

https://code.fb.com/ai-research/pythia/

19 comments

actuator7 yıl önce

I had a project named Pythia as well in my previous company. It was a prediction service and I needed a name that was related to predicting future, hence I chose the name of Oracle of Delphi. I am guessing that's where even Facebook got the name from.

The name was so bad that no one got the reference. I changed the git repo to Sybill, alas that also never clicked.

Edit: was supposed to be a reply to `davrosthedalek`

StavrosK7 yıl önce

I made a prediction service called Pythia in 2009. It's not exactly an obscure name.

actuator7 yıl önce

Not obscure but certainly not well known as well. Most are aware about the Oracle but not the name.

PS your name sounds Greek so it would definitely be more known in your circle I guess.

lsorber7 yıl önce

Sybill Trelawny?

actuator7 yıl önce

Yeah. Trelawney is more recognisable but doesn't have the same catch.

paulific7 yıl önce

Oh, I thought it was the Cumaean Sybil. But I guess that is where Trelawney's name comes from.

actuator7 yıl önce

Didn't know about her. Learned something new. :)

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davrosthedalek7 yıl önce

Why do people not do a google search before they name things: http://home.thep.lu.se/~torbjorn/pythia81html/Welcome.html Edit: Also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PYTHIA

jsty7 yıl önce

When they themselves have repurposed the name, can we really be surprised that someone else chooses to do so? Perhaps there are outraged Greek scholars out there fuming at "those damn Physicists" for getting in the way of their search results.

It's like naming a project after an ancient God - you've sort of got to accept that there'll be some namespace clashes.

evanb7 yıl önce

Relatedly, people seem to love taking names from physics, too. Atom, electron, and hydrogen are the most frustrating ones. But there are a lot of libraries. It makes finding the actual physics information I'm interested in annoying.

maxnoe7 yıl önce

Looking forward to papers using pythia the AI library to analyze data simulated by pythia the physics library.

astazangasta7 yıl önce

I named a project Pythia also. It's a pretty obvious choice for a python project. Name duplication is common. We will all live. No one will mistake this project for a particle accelerator sim.

adrianrocamora7 yıl önce

You are assuming it wasn't intentional, which is not clear at this point (and probably never will be)

adrianrocamora7 yıl önce

I recently learned about this piece of software when out for pizzas with a physicist friend of mine. I don't know if FB didn't know about it or didn't care.

ddavis7 yıl önce

Yep, pretty sad to see Facebook guilty of this.

gjstein7 yıl önce

The project pages are notably lacking images or interesting examples. Here is the most recent paper showing what they use this system for: [1] Toward VQA Models That Can Read [VQA == Visual Question Answering]

[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1904.08920.pdf

colesbury7 yıl önce

It has example images with Q&A now:

https://github.com/facebookresearch/pythia

apsdehal7 yıl önce

You can also try the colab notebook available at https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1Z9fsh10rFtgWe4uy8nv... to test the model in realtime.