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.
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.
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.
"Please don't pick the most provocative thing in an article or post to complain about in the thread. Find something interesting to respond to instead."
Is it really "Complex"? Or did we just make it "Complicated"? - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubaX1Smg6pY
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
>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?
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.
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.
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.
What would tinygrad replace if they continue to proceed like this?
Potentially PyTorch and Tensorflow.
Fell bad for geohotz. Such a lovely guy, i hope he strikes it right soon
Seems like he's doing fine, why do you feel bad for him?
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"Please don't pick the most provocative thing in an article or post to complain about in the thread. Find something interesting to respond to instead."
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
the value is the directness, not implied origination
not everyone cares about playing voldemort
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.