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  paxys
  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.
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  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 betterI find this organizational structure compelling, probably the closest to reaching 100% productivity in a week as you can get.
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  pa7ch
  Very weird to market this as subscribing to "Elon process for software"I remember when defcon ctf would play Geohot's PlayStation rap video every year on the wall.
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  geremiiah
  The risk for Tinygrad is that PyTorch will create a new backend for Inductor, plug in their AMD codegen stuff and walala, PyTorch still king. I mean, they could have easily just taken that route themselves instead of bothering with a new ML framework and AD engine. 99% of the work is just the AMD codegen part of the compiler.Either way, super cool project and I wish them the best.
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  measurablefunc
  Is it really "Complex"? Or did we just make it "Complicated"? - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubaX1Smg6pY
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  alphazard
  > 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 $2M/yr in hardware?
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  mika6996
  What would tinygrad replace if they continue to proceed like this?
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  deburo
  So this is all python? I bet Chris Lattner probably approached them.
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  timzaman
  Fell bad for geohotz. Such a lovely guy, i hope he strikes it right soon
• piskov
  > tinygrad is following the Elon process for software. Make the requirements less dumb. The best part is no part.That’s not Elon. See Russian TRIZhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRIZ
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  semiquaver
  Is this the guy who talked a big game about all the things he was going to fix at Twitter, then utterly failed when confronted with a real world codebase and gave up having done nothing of use?
• peter_d_sherman
  >"We also have a contract with AMD to get MI350X on MLPerf for Llama 405B training."Anything to help AMD (and potentially other GPU/NPU/IPU etc. chip makers) catch up with NVidia/CUDA is potentially worth money, potentially worth a lot of money, potentially worth up to Billion$...Why?If we havea) Market worth Billion$andb) A competitive race in that Market...thenc) We have VALUE in anything (product, service, ?, ???) that helps any given participant capture more of that market than their competitors...(AMD (and the other lesser known GPU/NPU/IPU etc. chip vendors) are currently lagging behind NVidia's CUDA AI market dominance -- so anything that helps the others advance in this area should, generally speaking, be beneficial for all technology users in general, and be potentially profitable (if the correct deals could be struck!) by those that have the skills to do such assisting...)Anyway, wishing you well in your endeavors, Tinygrad!
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  vileain
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