Hagbard Celine

Techno-optimist. e/acc. Looking for the next new new thing. Formerly @PokerDAO, @pillarwallet, @Meta. Ethereum non-core dev. 🏴‍☠️

[molson 🧠⚙️ @Molson_Hart]

Apple is pathetic.

Apple is sitting on 162 billion and didn’t have the balls to launch an electric vehicle after working on one for years.

Xiaomi, also a smartphone maker, sold 120,000 vehicles in 36 hours.

[Hagbard Celine @omindfuck]

@thenetrunna

[Hagbard Celine @omindfuck]

@badcryptobitch How? I don't get it, sorry

[CRONK 🎩 Crypto Reporter @CryptoCronkite]

I dont really think we “deserve” a lot of money for holding some coins

There are 10000 things harder to do and more deserving that dont yield the same returns

But the world does not go round on what is deserved or not

[Jake Brukhman @jbrukh]

2024 blockchain funding rounds be like “co-led by cryptoanarchist DAO fund and large corporate VC”.

[Hagbard Celine @omindfuck]

@moo9000 Network state, classical edition.

[Garry Tan @garrytan]

The future is not written

It is being written, and ideally you may contribute a verse

What will your verse be?

[vitalik.eth @VitalikButerin]

@elonmusk Would be amazing to have you join us and become a desktop linux enjoyer!

[Hagbard Celine @omindfuck]

@DionysianAgent I'm down.

[Matt Dursh @MattDursh]

that masculine urge to hire all your friends to go and build something never done before.

[Philip Whitehouse @philipwhiuk]

@ID_AA_Carmack CommitStrip nailed this so well years ago.

[Officer's Notes @officer_secret]

More about @discord secure set-up below FYI ⬇️

https://t.co/Nzb4xfJ5Bk

[Hagbard Celine @omindfuck]

Still my favourite @GreatDismal paragraph

[the tiny corp @__tinygrad__]

A bunch of rambling about the tinybox. I don't think there's much value in secrecy.

We have the parts to build 12 boxes and a case that's pretty close to final. Beating back all the PCI-E AER errors was hard, as anyone knows who has tried to build a system like this.

Our BOM cost is around $10k, and we are selling them for $15k. We've put a year of engineering into this, it's a lot harder than it first seemed. "We don't do things because they are easy, but because we thought they would be easy" You are welcome to believe me or not, but unless you are building in huge quantity, you are getting a great deal for $15k.

On the tinygrad side, we trained our first MLPerf qualifying model on a tinybox last week. We are replacing pieces of HIP that aren't up to standard, we replaced the compiler with direct calls to comgr (5x faster compile times) and we are most of the way to replacing the HIP runtime with HSA (one level lower). This is required to make multigpu fast.

The system image shipping with the box will be Ubuntu 22.04. It will only include tinygrad out of the box, but PyTorch and JAX support on AMD have come a long way. and your hardware is your hardware. We make money either way, you are welcome to buy it for any purpose.

The goal of the tiny corp is to commoditize the petaflop, and we believe tinygrad is the best way to do it. Solving problems in software is cheaper than in hardware. tinygrad will elucidate the deep structure of what neural networks are.

We have 583 preorders, and next week we'll place an order for 100 sets of parts. This is $1M in outlay. We will also ship five of the 12 boxes we have to a few early people who I've communicated with. For everyone else, they start shipping in April. The production line started running yesterday.

I have no idea what the preorder conversion rate will be, and don't really want to do something annoying with a second stage preorder. We have funding and can YOLO into the 100 boxes. I trust we'll sell them. First in preorder line will be first offered, and after we e-mail you you'll have a week to pay or lose your spot.

HW specs: 6x 7900XTX full fabric PCI-E 4.0, EPYC 7532, 128 GB RAM, 5x 1TB SN850X SSDs (4 in raid, 1 for boot), 2x 1600W PSUs, and an empty 16x OCP 3.0 slot for networking.

It's a really nice box; I take a lot of pride in building nice things. We will use it as a platform to push the limits of what's possible, you need a standard piece of hardware to do that. Example: that fast Mixtral grok demo can be in theory done on a tinybox (the 6 GPUs have 5.76 TB/s of RAM bandwidth), but the software needs tons of work.

Someday, we want to tape out our own chips. But if you can't build world class software on AMD chip (which is a lot better than the chip you'll make), you shouldn't be messing with expensive tape outs.

We will push the limits of what's possible on this box. The hardware is solid, but the software is a huge journey. I'm excited to be on that journey together with all of you soon to be tinybox owners. To the metal. We will squeeze every last FLOP out of this thing.

[Rolf Degen @DegenRolf]

The proclivity to cancel others is strongest among highly politicized individuals with a marked tendency to profile themselves as morally superior. https://t.co/8rR87fcCAF

[beeple @beeple]

REQUEST DENIED

[⚡️🌙 @dystopiabreaker]

“techbro” is just the reemergence of thinking it’s cool to hate nerds, mixed in with a bunch of resentment from watching the last 20 years of nerds taking over the world

[Social Acolyte @SocialAcolyte]

This app in 2020: we’re all gonna die, climate change is fucked, having kids is immoral, humanity is a virus

This app 2024: we’re all gonna make it, have unprotected sex, humanity is great, the technocapital machine is unstoppable, let’s conquer the universe

[Beff (e/acc) @beffjezos]

Built this first rig during my last weeks in big tech.

Felt like sharpening a sword before going on an adventure.