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piskovyesterday at 11:06 PM1 replyview on HN

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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refulgentistoday at 12:34 AM

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")

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