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I hate it when ‘inspirational’ quotes are attributed to the person with the largest audience and not the people who came up with it, like in this case, the engineers at Lockheed’s Skunk Works.
It's an apocryphal quote. "A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away." - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
> To fund the operation, we have a computer sales division that makes about $2M revenue a year. What's the margin on that? Do 5 software engineers really subsist on the spread from moving $2M/yr in hardware?
Is it really "Complex"? Or did we just make it "Complicated"? - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubaX1Smg6pY
(Love that talk tho)
> tinygrad is following the Elon process for software. Make the requirements less dumb. The best part is no part. That’s not Elon. See Russian TRIZ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRIZ
I've looked at the "only 18,935 lines of code" python code and it made me want to poke my eyes out. Not sure what's the point of this extreme code-golfing.
https://github.com/tinygrad/tinygrad/blob/master/tinygrad/co...
One of the cases why I think obsession with lines of code is one of the most counterproductive metrics, it always produces code like this.
Lots of words and weird analogies to say basically nothing. What is the status of the project? What can it do? What has it achieved in 5 years? But no, let's highlight how we follow the "Elon process". As a side note, whenever someone incessantly focuses on lines of code as a metric (in either direction), I immediately start to take them less seriously.
Did we read the same article? The third sentence is "The codebase is 18,935 lines not including tests." You can go to the repo and see what it does. Look at issues, PRs, etc. He wasn't saying it to brag about its size, but the opposite. The mission is to commoditize the petaflop. Basically allow LLMs to be trained efficiently on commodity non-NVIDIA GPUs. Would you prefer some bullshit mission like Meta of "connectin…
That I cannot believe. He might have shifted the make-or-buy decisions, but both Tesla and SpaceX do a lot of outsourcing.
> tinygrad is following the Elon process for software. Make the requirements less dumb. The best part is no part. That’s not Elon. See Russian TRIZ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRIZ
Not sure where it was from but I remember reading a comment about how every modern rocket scientist needs to come to terms with the fact that every novel idea they might have has already been proposed and tried by a Russian scientist in the 20th century.