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Re: Tinygrad

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Apr 04, 2022, 8:58 PM UTC

fortydegrees wrote: post #35

pixelpoet wrote: post #18

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And the shady cheapETH business last year: https://oldreddit.com/r/cheapETH/comments/lkzkso/george_hotz...

Adding a comment as I don't think this is a fair representation of George. He livestreamed the creation of cheapETH as a technical demonstration of web3 development[0] and continually talks about it being worthless while developing it. He's also on record as being a serial 'no-coiner'. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LaIezgiUmw

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Re: Tinygrad

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Post by dundarious » Mon, Apr 04, 2022, 8:59 PM UTC

striking wrote: post #42

recuter wrote: post #37

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This is why the good lord gave us: https://github.com/psf/black Import line is actually improved with this commit. LGTM, ship it. We now return to your regularly scheduled bikeshedding.

You're saving yourself from one kind of golfing, but not all of them. Additionally, I feel like installing an additional tool is kind of against the spirit of 1kLOC simplicity.

Dev dependencies and release dependencies are distinct. There would be no sense in complaining about hypocrisy if a zero-dependency C project uses clang-format or valgrind, and similarly for a python project using black or mypy.

Re: Tinygrad

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Post by mdp2021 » Mon, Apr 04, 2022, 9:02 PM UTC

whimsicalism wrote: post #3

Reminds me of https://github.com/minitorch/minitorch

Minitorch is intended to be both an engine and high quality didactic material, from Cornell University, for the course 'Machine Learning Engineering'.

> the full student code for minitorch. It is designed as a single repo that can be completed part by part following the guide book

> Basic Neural Networks and Modules ; Autodifferentiation for Scalars ; Tensors, Views, and Strides ; Parallel Tensor Operations ; GPU / CUDA Programming in NUMBA ; Convolutions and Pooling ; Advanced NN Functions

See: http://minitorch.github.io/

Re: Tinygrad

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Post by hwers » Mon, Apr 04, 2022, 9:04 PM UTC

bri3d wrote: post #47

canjobear wrote: post #44

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Who cares if he’s a nice guy?

If he's being held up as some shining beacon of the "hacker-ish culture" as the grandparent poster is doing, it would be nice if he weren't also a jerk.

I don’t think of him as shining. I like that he’s a real person, flaws and all. Not someone to idolize. Many great hackers that I know and in general are total jerks (I suspect the trait helps wrangling a machine somehow but idk). I wouldn’t find it accurate to my experiences if we had some polished perfect optics guy as representative (not that that’s what he is)

Re: Tinygrad

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Post by londons_explore » Mon, Apr 04, 2022, 9:05 PM UTC

> tinygrad will always be below 1000 lines. If it isn't, we will revert commits until tinygrad becomes smaller.

I applaud this. Committing to keeping a project small and simple.

So many projects start small and simple, and before long they've been extended in many different directions and now have thousands of options and things to understand before you can get started.

Re: Tinygrad

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Post by throwawaybner3 » Mon, Apr 04, 2022, 9:06 PM UTC

I like his honest streams. Also this geohot can code for 12 hours straight. That's just amazing. If you take in to account his speed of thought, its more like 36 hours.

Re: Tinygrad

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Post by throwawaybner3 » Mon, Apr 04, 2022, 9:08 PM UTC

fortydegrees wrote: post #35

pixelpoet wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And the shady cheapETH business last year: https://oldreddit.com/r/cheapETH/comments/lkzkso/george_hotz...

Adding a comment as I don't think this is a fair representation of George. He livestreamed the creation of cheapETH as a technical demonstration of web3 development[0] and continually talks about it being worthless while developing it. He's also on record as being a serial 'no-coiner'. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LaIezgiUmw

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Re: Tinygrad

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Post by tartakovsky » Mon, Apr 04, 2022, 9:15 PM UTC

For a novice in this space, can anyone provide a link to an article providing a comparison of: Pytorch, Pytorch lightning, tinygrad, micrograd.....? I would like to point my clients to a reference here. It's no longer enough to say "PyTorch" I guess.

Re: Tinygrad

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Post by bitexploder » Mon, Apr 04, 2022, 9:15 PM UTC

bri3d wrote: post #47

canjobear wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Who cares if he’s a nice guy?

If he's being held up as some shining beacon of the "hacker-ish culture" as the grandparent poster is doing, it would be nice if he weren't also a jerk.

Everyone should kill their heroes. They almost never live up to the pedestals people place them on. They are all just people and have flaws. They don’t have to be some perfect person to do cool things we can respect.

Re: Tinygrad

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Post by aantix » Mon, Apr 04, 2022, 9:15 PM UTC

bri3d wrote: post #47

canjobear wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Who cares if he’s a nice guy?

If he's being held up as some shining beacon of the "hacker-ish culture" as the grandparent poster is doing, it would be nice if he weren't also a jerk.

Why the need to conflate personality traits with skill?

If I have a rare disease, I don't care if the doctor is nice. I want them to get the diagnosis correct.

Van Gogh painted brilliantly. And he cut off his ear.

Eminem is a great rapper. His themes can be violent.