> This is geohot. He knows how to build software, and how to fix problems.
This is a nonsequitor. This feels like when my uncle learns that I know how to program he asks me to build a website. These are two different things. I do ML and scientific computing, I'm not your guy. Hotz is a wiz kid but why should we expect his talents to be universal? Generalists don't exist.
And we're talking the guy who tweeted about believing that the integers and reals have the same cardinality right? Between that and his tweets on quantum we definitely have strong evidence that his jailbreaking skills don't translate to math or physics.
He's clearly good at what he does. There's no doubt about that. But why should I believe that his skills translate to other domains?
STOP MAKING GODS OUT OF MEN. Seriously, can we stop this? What does Stanning accomplish? It's creepy. It's creepy if it is BTS, Bieber, Elon, Robert Downey Jr, or Hotz.
> Read "The Red Team (AMD)" section in the linked article:
Clearly I did, I quoted from it. You quoted from the next section (So why does no one use it?).
geohot wrote tinygrad. This is not about believing his skills to translate to other domains. It is his domain.
You definitely shouldn't trust what geohot says about infinitary mathematics or (god forbids) quantum mechanics. On the other hand, you generally should trust what he says about machine learning software stack.
Tinygrad isn't a big selling point. I'd expect most people to be able to build something similar after watching Karpathy's micrograd tutorial. Tinygrad doesn't mean expertise in ML and it similarly doesn't mean expertise in accelerator programming. I wouldn't expect a front end developer to understand Template Metaprogramming and I wouldn't expect an engineer who programs acoustic simulations to be good at front end. You act like there are actually fullstack developers and not just people who do both poorly.
This project isn't even about skill in ML, which demonstrates misunderstandings. The project requires writing accelerator code. Go learn CUDA and tell me how different it is. It isn't something you're going to pick up in a weekend, or a month, and realistically not even a year. A lot of people can write kernels, not a lot of people can do it well.
> You act like there are actually fullstack developers and not just people who do both poorly.
If you haven't worked with someone who's smarter and more motivated than you are, then I can see how you'd draw that conclusion, but if you have, then you'd know that there are full stack developers out there who do both better than you. It's humbling to code in their repos. I've never worked with geohot so I don't know if he is such a person, but they're out there.
> Hotz is a wiz kid but why should we expect his talents to be universal?
No of course not. But this is literally his field of expertise, and there's plenty of reasons to think he knows what he is doing. Specifically, the combination of reverse engineering and writing ML libraries means I'd certainly expect he's had reasonable experience compiling things.
This is a nonsequitor. This feels like when my uncle learns that I know how to program he asks me to build a website. These are two different things. I do ML and scientific computing, I'm not your guy. Hotz is a wiz kid but why should we expect his talents to be universal? Generalists don't exist.
And we're talking the guy who tweeted about believing that the integers and reals have the same cardinality right? Between that and his tweets on quantum we definitely have strong evidence that his jailbreaking skills don't translate to math or physics.
He's clearly good at what he does. There's no doubt about that. But why should I believe that his skills translate to other domains?
STOP MAKING GODS OUT OF MEN. Seriously, can we stop this? What does Stanning accomplish? It's creepy. It's creepy if it is BTS, Bieber, Elon, Robert Downey Jr, or Hotz.
> Read "The Red Team (AMD)" section in the linked article:
Clearly I did, I quoted from it. You quoted from the next section (So why does no one use it?).