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Classic. I love it. My kind of engineer.
> And even if you are an atheist, you probably still accept the bible is the closest thing we have to a human origin story.
I can't imagine why he believes so. Apart from the modern materialist origin story, what about all the mythical ones from other cultures? Of all of them, this is my favorite: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckiNNgfMKcQ
There is no room for innovators in the autonomous driving game. All the startups predicated on fast innovation will be shaken out. Most already have been. Autonomous driving is about delivering quality software. If you're not a software company with a solid platform, you aren't in the game. As this blog post illustrates, the whole comma.ai thing was pitched based on vibes anyway. There never was a path to viability.
How else do you convince people to take risks?
With hard evidence of traction? Then what the fuck do you need money for?
One of my favorite tech articles of all time involved this guy. He was showing off the self driving capabilities of his framework and took a reporter out on a drive. Everything went well and while they were wrapping up the interview the reporter said "Well I bet you're just driving around all the time hands free, it must be amazing" and Hotz says "Oh well I just got it working this morning". Classic. I love it. My ki…
It is absolutely the wrong attitude for self-driving cars or anything that is safety critical.
Hotz - long time reader here. Good luck with Tiny Corporation. Don’t stop writing these blog posts they are fantastic. Thank you @ra7 for posting this.
Hotz has always come across as very arrogant to me. Claims everyone else is doing things the wrong way, claims he can do it himself in 24h, then never delivers on his words.
His writing is even more self aggrandizing than Stephen Wolfram’s!
Nice to know, in this dark age, there are still true Heroes walking among us.
edit: apparently this is a hot take to some, but no real substantive refuting of what's being said- only appeals to greater authority. "Well so and so was smarter"
One of my favorite tech articles of all time involved this guy. He was showing off the self driving capabilities of his framework and took a reporter out on a drive. Everything went well and while they were wrapping up the interview the reporter said "Well I bet you're just driving around all the time hands free, it must be amazing" and Hotz says "Oh well I just got it working this morning". Classic. I love it. My ki…
That kind of attitude is great for editor or compiler or game development. It is absolutely the wrong attitude for self-driving cars or anything that is safety critical.
The body text does have the vibe of totally leaving the company. But it's not clearly stated.
I'm a little sad overall, I was never really impressed by George until he did Comma and started building real things. I was mildly hopeful about the Comma bodies before seeing this.
Tinygrad/tinycude seem cool. Anything to squeeze more memory out of these GPUs.