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.
"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."
It doesn't work as well when you start mixing languages, or generating code.
https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/tiny-corp-su...
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Check tinygrad’s twitter account for specifics if you want to catch up on progress
I find this organizational structure compelling, probably the closest to reaching 100% productivity in a week as you can get.
We have a few whole-team meetups in Hong Kong each year for 2-4 weeks, and there's a San Diego or Hong Kong office that anyone can work from as they choose. We also have a wide array of fancy multi GPU boxes that everyone on the team gets full access to (known external contributors can get some access also).
I think many companies that were quick to embrace remote have walked it back, not everyone is capable of working productively remotely, nor are all types of work amenable to remote.
I remember when defcon ctf would play Geohot's PlayStation rap video every year on the wall.
"A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
What's the margin on that? Do 5 software engineers really subsist on the spread from moving $2M/yr in hardware?
The fact that it competes with PyTorch in so few lines speaks to the incredibly low incidental complexity imposed by Tinygrad.
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.
That’s not Elon. See Russian TRIZ
not everyone cares about playing voldemort
He only has to spend a couple thousand a month to influence comment ranking on HN.