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George Hotz is a talented engineer but he absolutely does not have the social science background to "fix" Twitter.
You don’t need a social science background to fix Twitter.
Why wouldn't AMD throw a few million at this? Worst case they lose a small amount of money, but best case they finally get good software for their hardware. The past decade or so, they haven't been able to create any good software for their hardware. They made small improvements but the competition, Nvidia, has also made improvements to their already good software. It too the point where their software is the reason…
AFAIK the "AMDs drivers are bad" meme is outdated. Sure, their AI/ML software is garbage, but the graphics drivers are fine.
I haven't confirmed, but I strongly assume that either their graphics drivers or something Ubuntu does with Wayland are not fine.
For background, "geohot", is George Hotz, who's a known hacker / tech personality[0] This project fits the pattern of his previous projects: he gets excited about the currently hot thing in tech, makes his own knockoff version, generates a ton of buzz in the tech press for it, and then it fizzles out because he doesn't have the resources or attention span to actually make something at that scale. In 2016, Tesla and s…
Comma didn't fizzle out. https://twitter.com/comma_ai/status/1578517666632900608
Where is this number coming from? The number of spikes per second?
Edit: doing a quick search, it doesn’t seem like there’s a consensus on the order of magnitude of this. Here’s a summary of various estimates: https://aiimpacts.org/brain-performance-in-flops/
For background, "geohot", is George Hotz, who's a known hacker / tech personality[0] This project fits the pattern of his previous projects: he gets excited about the currently hot thing in tech, makes his own knockoff version, generates a ton of buzz in the tech press for it, and then it fizzles out because he doesn't have the resources or attention span to actually make something at that scale. In 2016, Tesla and s…
It's not like he decided to hop from self-driving cars to 'AI' because fads changed.
For background, "geohot", is George Hotz, who's a known hacker / tech personality[0] This project fits the pattern of his previous projects: he gets excited about the currently hot thing in tech, makes his own knockoff version, generates a ton of buzz in the tech press for it, and then it fizzles out because he doesn't have the resources or attention span to actually make something at that scale. In 2016, Tesla and s…
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It wasn’t even fixing Twitter. It was marginally improving search.
From the actual engineers that were posting on Twitter marginal is putting it lightly. The quality, arrogance and ignorance of enterprise SDLC was akin to that of a 1st year grad.
For background, "geohot", is George Hotz, who's a known hacker / tech personality[0] This project fits the pattern of his previous projects: he gets excited about the currently hot thing in tech, makes his own knockoff version, generates a ton of buzz in the tech press for it, and then it fizzles out because he doesn't have the resources or attention span to actually make something at that scale. In 2016, Tesla and s…
He has been working on tinygrad since atleast 2021. https://geohot.github.io/blog/jekyll/update/2021/06/13/a-bre...
I know it seems like ages ago at the current pace, but ya gotta remember that GPT-3 was released in mid-2020.
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AFAIK the "AMDs drivers are bad" meme is outdated. Sure, their AI/ML software is garbage, but the graphics drivers are fine.
The cutting edge for graphics is all raytracing, and Nvidia still dominates. DLSS3, pathtracing, etc, these are for 'graphics', but heavily dependent on AI post processing, so Nvidia still rules. So in the gaming market, Nvidia still commands a huge premium. No AMD card can play Cyberpunk on overdrive 4k.
IMHO, unless you have a $1000+ GPU, RayTracing is still not worth the performance hit. I prefer playing at 100+ FPS with RayTracing off, than turning it on and have my frame rate cut in half.