To me it seems like after cracking the PS3 and working for sony is where he went downhill. He could never top that.
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#22I hope his shine hasn't burned out yet. People seem to do great things in their 20s, and then at best ride the wave they set in motion. Actually creating a wonder from zero after you've clocked 30 is very rare.
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#23Hotz 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.
This is a weird comment to me, the guy is clearly exceptional. He's written security exploits that have been seen across the industry and in publications and has touched various spaces across engineering. His insights on self-driving in particular were just far ahead enough in their time that now Tesla Engineering is doing what he claimed was the only practical way to deal with SAE level 2 driving, without radar.
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#24As long as he keeps on with the tinygrad Twitch streems I don't care. I got far more value of him doing live programming than $5/month.
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#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
Nice to know, in this dark age, there are still true Heroes walking among us.
When it's your actual track record it's not bragging. It's just facts. 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"
Geohots actual track record isn’t that impressive though, he’s just one exploit dev with an OK portfolio.
>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"
Do you happen to have substantive evidence to back up the original claim?
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#26There 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.
agree in a sense - autonomy could take a generation to deliver, and it isn't clear how a small "traditional" startup can really participate
and everything in tech attracts wannabes and grifters making a cashgrab
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#27It strikes me as surprising that George Hotz is religious. Very few people I’ve met with similar personalities are.
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#28George Hotz is my canary for the question "is there still adventure to be found in computing". I hope he finds some, because if he can't, then there is probably none.
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#29Goerge doesn't owe anybody anything. The kid's following his whims. What's wrong with that? I'd rather this than some long and drawn out stagnation of comma.
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#30Big respect for this decision. If he feels like it's all planned out and only remains to see if it works or not (it's all about improving the current models and not about big changes in the codebase) I think it's good for him to focus on whatever he feels like, tiny corporation or whatever it will be.