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I wish they would release the quantized versions in a safetensor format. Many frameworks can't load PTE and GGUF.

A question for the author(s) since they seem to be very responsive to this thread :). 1. How fine grain is each task? In a traditional matrix multiplication kernel, for example, ea…

An example of “AST via reflection” https://docs.scala-lang.org/scala3/reference/metaprogramming...

What are the hero use cases for AI agents? Reading the website, I don't see a good demonstration of what "AI agents" are and what they're good for.

I believe this post is referring to device-scoped memory barriers - also sometimes called fences - as opposed to execution barriers. The former being a mechanism to ensure memory a…

Threads are also a tool for concurrency.

The author states it wasn't actually work-life balance that was making him happy and tired. Rather, he discovered: > By mid-2021 I was tired all the time. I know I wasn’t alone, be…

This is the same for any specialized software engineering role. Compilers, GPGPU, embedded systems, computer graphics, image processing, etc. In an interview panel for any of these…

Do you have references to the incident(s) or published work(s)?

> The players are traded freely among teams Yes, this happens more often than in the past, but there are still many players and staff that stay with an organization for an extended…

My impression was that the iTunes stunt was not received well because they had already lost popularity. The iTunes stunt didn't help, but I doubt it materially hurt their popularit…

There is roughly equal levels of complexity in any modern, high performance, general purpose/programmable chip.

How much would the trade offs change if GPUs shared the same main memory as CPU?

> It occurs to me that for this particular algorithm there might be a chance to rescue it. Instead of simply spinning, a waiting workgroup might make a small amount of progress rec…

On 1, you are right that most HW most of the time will make the requisite forward progress after the atomic bump. But Vulkan does not guarantee it and most HW doesn't either (you'r…

A couple of small comments. 1. The single pass prefix sum the author implements is not legal Vulkan code. The algorithm requires spinning on conditions to be satisfied by concurren…

I know very little about the actual technology, but I feel like the blurb on their front page explains this succinctly: “ Firecracker enables you to deploy workloads in lightweight…

Does “1M for 4 years stock” mean a 1M grant per year that each vest over 4 years or 4 years worth of grants that total 1M?

We have a similar culture on my team. When I was a junior engineer, being able to poke my head into any open office that sounded like it had an interesting conversation going on wa…

Metal 1.0 reflected the capabilities of mobile GPUs at the time. Apple is not in a race with Khronos.

You're understanding of the history of Mantle, Metal, and Vulkan is very poor. 1. Mantle was not originally being proposed as a "open" API as you are implying. A reading of the [or…

And macOS. And iOS.

Hmmm, I think I know where the OP saw this link posted originally :-).

It's a simplified form of Hungarian notation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian_notation

On a related topic, what are other's favorite learning resources for applied distributed systems?