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George Hotz

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George Francis Hotz, alias geohot, is an American security hacker, entrepreneur, and software engineer. He is known for developing iOS jailbreaks, reverse engineering the PlayStation 3, and for the subsequent lawsuit brought against him by Sony. From September 2015 until November 2025, he worked on his vehicle automation machine learning company comma.ai. Since November 2022, Hotz has been working on tinygrad, a deep learning framework.

Conversation after conversation, George Hotz returns to autonomous driving. Comma AI's Comma 2 device, priced at $1,000, supports 91 car models and aims to reach 100 by year-end. George Hotz argues that Tesla's multitask learning approach to autonomous driving is flawed compared to end-to-end learning.

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Hotz modified the Ethereum compiler with a 300 line diff to streamline safe bytecode creation, reducing complexity from a 3000 line transpiler.
#132George Hotz: Hacking the Simulation & Learning to Drive with Neural Nets
Hotz argues that lossless compression is equivalent to intelligence, suggesting a novel perspective on AI capabilities.
#132George Hotz: Hacking the Simulation & Learning to Drive with Neural Nets
Hotz's Tinygrad framework operates with only 20 operations, significantly less than XLA's 2000, emphasizing simplicity over complexity.
#387George Hotz: Tiny Corp, Twitter, AI Safety, Self-Driving, GPT, AGI & God
Hotz predicts that future language models will incorporate memory systems, potentially disrupting traditional search engines like Google.
#387George Hotz: Tiny Corp, Twitter, AI Safety, Self-Driving, GPT, AGI & God
Hotz argues that AI accelerators are primarily a software issue, challenging the focus on hardware innovation in AI development.
#387George Hotz: Tiny Corp, Twitter, AI Safety, Self-Driving, GPT, AGI & God
Hotz's critique of LIDAR as a crutch challenges the industry's reliance on it for autonomous vehicle perception.
George Hotz: Comma.ai, OpenPilot, and Autonomous Vehicles
OpenPilot's ability to support 45 car makes highlights its adaptability and potential market reach.
George Hotz: Comma.ai, OpenPilot, and Autonomous Vehicles
Hotz's plan for Comma.ai to enter the insurance market could disrupt traditional models with data-driven premiums.
George Hotz: Comma.ai, OpenPilot, and Autonomous Vehicles
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Infinite Jest
by David Foster Wallace
Atlas Shrugged
by Ayn Rand
The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect
by Cory Doctorow
Grey Hat Hacking
by Unknown
Crime and Punishment
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Counterfactuals
by Judea Pearl

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Learning a Driving Simulator
by George Hotz
Schmidhofer theories
by Schmidhofer

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Consumer Reports
by Consumer Reports

videos

Hackers
by 1995 Film

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Hutter Prize
by Hutter
Unqualified Reservations
by Curtis Yarvin
My Little Pony Friendship is Optimal
by Unknown
Micrograd
by Andrej Karpathy
LLaMA
by Meta
OpenPilot
by Comma.ai
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