The film is interesting due to its rarity, but most likely it's not a very good film. So the only people that you might screen into are people who are interested in film history or especially interested in Jerry Lewis
It's not even anywhere near the same. How often do you drive an ice car without touching the brakes ever? That's my normal operating in my model Y. The regen is powerful enough that it's equivalent to a fairly strongly pressing the brakes on a normal car. There is no way anyone can drive an ICE car like that normally.
Also, regenerative braking isn't an intrinsic aspect of an EV, it is a feature.
His first hedge fund ran for 20 years, and then his second one 8 years, during which he had very positive returns, but the strategy he used stopped working in 2002 (probably because everyone else jumped on it too).
If you have an algorithmic edge, eventually it will stop working. If it's a really good one, your trades become someone else's edge. The market is constantly changing and active traders are constantly looking at what's going on and trying to take advantage. The more I looked into trading, the more it was just a sea of "Use these charts", "don't really trust these charts", and "once you lose a ton of money, you'll get a feel for things"
You have the market itself which is like the environment, it can go hot or cold based on broad trends, and if that's all their was fundamentals would likely work well.
The problem is there the dumb prey you feed on may adapt and remove your niche you fit in. Even worse is there is no shortage of predators watching you and waiting for you to make a mistake and they'll eat you alive.
geohot has a loud mouth ... but he has earned the cred and walks the walk.
I wish there was a thousand more geohots than all the mediocre middle-managers at AMD or tenstorrent; or people who have never done anything beyond posting snarky comments in online forums.
> geohot has a loud mouth ... but he has earned the cred
Sadly, I think geohot is an example of someone who earned some cred for impressive accomplishments in the past and then tried to cash in that cred over and over again in unrelated future domains.
His brief and very public flame out at Twitter after mysteriously abandoning another project and the bold claims about his AMD work that never really translated to anything have really detracted from whatever past “cred” he built up. I really hope he can find a new niche and succeed, but until then it might be time to lie low on social media and avoid throwing more mud.
>Earning “cred” for past accomplishments doesn’t give someone a free pass forever to be a loud mouth.
What the ... ? Sorry, but you don't have to earn that. I suggest you familiarize yourself with human rights, particularly if you won the lottery and were born in a country like the US; it is very clearly written, in unambiguous terms, the rights their citizens enjoy.
And still, I'd rather listen to geohot rambling about whatever he wants to say, than some randos on the internet who have accomplished nothing but "arguing". Respect is not a right, it is earned, he's earned mine.
> What the ... ? Sorry, but you don't have to earn that. I suggest you familiarize yourself with human rights, particularly if you won the lottery and were born in a country like the US; it is very clearly written, in unambiguous terms, the rights their citizens enjoy.
This is obtuse. I obviously wasn’t talking about human rights or the 1st amendment.
I was saying it’s illogical to suggest that because someone did one impressive thing in another domain a long time ago, we should therefore continue to value their input on every topic forever.
I don’t know what you’re talking about here. You can run your mouth as much as you like…you just become a laughingstock at a certain point. Nobody is calling for geohot to be silenced.
One of the lessons I wish I'd learned earlier is that indulging bombastic behavior neither benefits them nor you.
Strong opinions, weakly held are good. Well-reasoned opinions to the contrary are even encouraged. Provided, of course, that they're smart enough to know when to persist and when to disagree and commit.
If you just indulge it, they end up with the engineering equivalent of Nobelitis. And if they're on your team, you end up with more burden than asset no matter how brilliant they are.
I think he is right about AMD but completely misses the mark when it comes to tenstorrent. He is ranting about exponential linear unit (elu), which hardly seems to be something that could possibly hold an AI company back. If the hardware is running and training models reliably, then it's just a matter of pricing to stay competitive. Poor optimization cuts your margins, but the incentives are aligned.
With AMD the experience is so poor that you have to save the company from itself if you want to make progress.
People refuse to believe it, but the AMD experience is getting better every day by leaps and bounds. Over the last few months, there is a brand new focus on improving the software. There is still a long way to go, but the company is absolutely trying to save itself.
AMD has legitimately been making great progress. They still have a long way to go, and I appreciate SemiAnalysis taking up the mantle of calling them out, but I ran:
Regarding SA, I’m all for holding AMD accountable, but let’s at least get the facts right, and maybe don’t come at it with a history of cheerleading for Nvidia.
geohot got a lot of press and attention by coming out aggressively at AMD during a moment when their software really was weak.
The short-term payoff of that drama created a long-term problem where the only way they could look good was by outrunning the progress of the engineers who were inside the company, well funded, and already familiar with everything. It was an impossible goal from the start but he made it even more impossible by attacking AMD. AMD was smart to basically ignore them and wait for him to give up, as opposed to inviting that drama to crossover in-house or split their user base.
We got the MI300X box on MLPerf too, and every MLPerf from here on general tinygrad improvements should bring down the times. We're still quite focused on AMD.
Maintaining and improving existing software sure is boring and often thankless compared to starting flashy new projects where you get to make and understand all the major decisions up front.
> Maintaining and improving existing software sure is boring and often thankless
There was a big public episode where he appealed to Elon Musk for a job at Twitter, was given an “internship”, tried soliciting public submissions for the code he was tasked with, left a lot of people shocked that he was struggled with basic FE work, and then resigned 4 weeks in: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34074344
