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Five Years of Tinygrad

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Re: Five Years of Tinygrad

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Post by jszymborski »

paxys wrote: post #6

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.

From [0]:

"When we can reproduce a common set of papers on 1 NVIDIA GPU 2x faster than PyTorch. We also want the speed to be good on the M1. ETA, Q2 next year."

[0] https://tinygrad.org/#tinybox

Re: Five Years of Tinygrad

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Post by zephen »

deburo wrote: post #5

So this is all python? I bet Chris Lattner probably approached them.

Lattner is a smart guy, but I think Mojo might be the wrong direction.

Time will tell.

History has not so far been kind to projects which attempt to supplant cPython, whether they are other Python variants such as PyPy, or other languages such as julia.

Python has a lot of detractors, but (despite some huge missteps with the 2-3 transition) the core team keeps churning out stuff that people want to use.

Mojo is being positioned "as a member of the Python family" but, like Pyrex/Cython, it has special syntax, and even worse, the calling convention is both different than Python, and depends on the type of variable being passed. And the introspection is completely missing.

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Post by still-learning »

>People get hired by contributing to the repo. It’s a very self directed job, with one meeting a week and a goal of making tinygrad better

I find this organizational structure compelling, probably the closest to reaching 100% productivity in a week as you can get.

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Post by ttul »

still-learning wrote: post #16

>People get hired by contributing to the repo. It’s a very self directed job, with one meeting a week and a goal of making tinygrad better I find this organizational structure compelling, probably the closest to reaching 100% productivity in a week as you can get.

I wonder what happened to George’s old policy of requiring everyone to move to San Diego?

Re: Five Years of Tinygrad

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Post by spiderfarmer »

vileain wrote: post #15
spiderfarmer wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There are lots of bubbles where Elon is still king. Those bubbles are often void of deodorant.

Based on the response it appears HN is one such bubble.

Elon spent billions to buy a platform and promote his tweets. He spent billions more to create a tweaked AI model that praised him like a mad king.

He only has to spend a couple thousand a month to influence comment ranking on HN.

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