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> In return you get a legion of grad students developing software for your hardware. That would be worthless. It's so weird that people think academia is contr
by almostgotcaught 2y ago
> In return you get a legion of grad students developing software for your hardware.
That would be worthless. It's so weird that people think academia is contributing in any meaningful way to the top lines or bottom lines here. You're free to look at the commit history of PyTorch/TF/Triton/HF/llama/whatever and judge for yourself.
- alephnerd 2y ago> It's so weird that people think academia is contributing in any meaningful way > PyTorch/TF/Triton/HF/llama/whatever and judge for yourself. Where do you think the creators of most of these current models came from and started their careers? More critically, the ecosystem the arose for these to exist was subsidized by research for decades.
- physicsguy 2y agoThat’s so misguided it’s unreal. I’ve worked at several companies where there have been decent HPC/GPU codebases and at all of them the staff working on that have largely come out of academia in one way or another.
- almostgotcaught 2y ago> come out of academia isn't the same as in academia.