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Built tinygrad as a tensor library similar to PyTorch and wrote about the vision that making code run fast on hardware is fundamentally a search problem.
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The Not-so Bitter Lesson
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Richard Sutton's 'Bitter Lesson' argues that general search and compute methods outperform domain expertise, but engineers remain critical for properly framing search problems—as exemplified by tinygrad's approach to hardware optimization.
“Built tinygrad as a tensor library similar to PyTorch and wrote about the vision that making code run fast on hardware is fundamentally a search problem.”
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