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Re:Tinygrad by a-dub on Monday April 04, 2022 @03:57PM (#30911292)
simplicity is a virtue. the project goal apparently isn't to have a lot of features, it's to do the core thing in the simplest way possible.
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Re:Tinygrad by lazide on Monday April 04, 2022 @03:59PM (#30911321)
And if someone does some code golf to stay under the 1000 line limit rather than go to 1050 lines that’s an improvement?
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Re:Tinygrad by recursive on Monday April 04, 2022 @04:34PM (#30911642)
Then the human responsible for approving the PR will decide whether it's worth it. Personally, I love it.
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Re:Tinygrad by a-dub on Monday April 04, 2022 @04:38PM (#30911680)
no that's another bloated ml library with code compression.

i suspect a part of the motivation for this library is learning and teaching.

and maybe a little flexing on overcomplicated autograd libraries.

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