ooookay my system somehow already has torch installed guess i built it and forgot! oooh it has errors when launched __time for a virtualenv using an old version of python__ python releases are at https://www.python.org/downloads/ i have 3.10 . there's no torch binary. installing 3.9 hum only source available for download. well, i have python3.8 on my local system already. i can make a virtualenv with that! $ virtualenv --python=/usr/local/bin/python3.8 venv.py38 $ source venv.py38/bin/activate $ pip3 install torch whoo finally goes ------------- 1039 i spent some time fixing my python installation and copying down a tutorial for training a seq2seq model. i'm having muscle spasms now as i usually do. it was quite pleasant to be able to work on this, both in pursuing language models and in looking at the binaries by hand. i'm not sure what is next for me.