There's this curious experience of people bringing up geohot / tinygrad and you can tell they've been sold into a personality cult.

I don't mean that pejoratively, I apologize for the bluntness. It's just I've been dealing with his nonsense since iPhone OS 1.0 x jailbreaking, and I hate seeing people taken advantage of.

(nvidia x macs x thunderbolt has been a thing for years and years and years, well before geohot) (tweet is non-sequitor beyond bogstandard geohot tells: odd obsession with LoC, and we're 2 years away from Changing The Game, just like we were 2 years ago)

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piskov 9 hours ago | parent [-]

Can you show any other thing that runs nvidia gpu under m-series macs?

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MrDarcy 9 hours ago | parent [-]

Who cares? Nobody is building large scale inference services with macs.

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piskov 9 hours ago | parent [-]

Because this is exactly the demonstration of abstraction: the same stuff allows direct gpu communication so that even mac nvidia thing is possible.

It is not tied to nvidia as well.

This is the power of tinygrad

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refulgentis 7 hours ago | parent [-]

My deepest apologies, I can't parse this and I earnestly tried: 5 minutes of my own thinking, then 3 llms, then a 10 minute timer of my own thinking over the whole thing.

My guess is you're trying to communicate "tinygrad doesn't need gpu drivers" which maybe is transmutated into "tinygrad replaces CUDA" and you think "CUDA means other GPUs can't be used for LLMs, thus nvidia has a strangehold"

I know George has pushed this idea for years now, but, you have to look no further than AMD/Google making massive deals to understand how it works on the ground.

I hope he doesn't victimize you further with his rants. It's cruel of him to use people to assuage this own ego and make them look silly in public.

Re: has someone else does this? https://github.com/albertstarfield/apple-slick-rtx (May 2024, 19 months ago. didn't bother looking further than 4th google result for "apple silicon external gpu")

	▲	piskov 7 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> Compute Workload Test: This will be add soon Wonder what happened that it never came. > Willy's got his i3-12100 Gen RTX3090 hosted on Ubuntu with Juice Server E-gpu my ass