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vimarsh6739

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About vimarsh6739

CS grad student interested in compilers and heterogeneous computing.

https://vimarsh.me

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    I disagree with several parts here. But hopefully, this leads to a fun discussion! > no need for a lexer with a recursive descent parser I'd argue that teaching how to write a lexe…

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    Really hard to find alternatives to Julia for AD as a first class citizen

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    To me, this feels less about Rust and more about moving away from copyleft.

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    yes, but in practice, I believe people spam __syncthreads() in GPU kernels just to ensure correctness. There is value in statically proving that you don't need a synchronization in…

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    One of the more subtle aspects of retargeting GPU code to run on the CPU is the presence of fine grained(read - block level and warp level) explicit synchronization mechanisms bein…

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    Thanks for the quick reply! About hardware support, I was wondering if the LPU has a hardware instruction to compute the attention matrix similar to the MatrixMultiply/Convolve ins…

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    Might be a bit out of context, but isn't the TPU also optimized for low latency inference? (Judging by reading the original TPU architecture paper here - https://arxiv.org/abs/1704…

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    The card is pretty useful to me as a first card since it has no foreign transaction fee.

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    it isn't a real download, because you don't have access to the raw file.

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    KRAZAM is really under-rated. It is one of those few YouTube channels which produce really really good content and stories relative to their size.

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    How does oneAPI/SYCL compare to CUDA? We certainly need an alternative to OpenCL, but every day, I can't help but notice the widening gulf between CUDA and any other GPGPU API out …

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    I really don't have anything to say to the OP, but I wonder(in a similar situation) if with the recent push towards e-sim, will SMS based 2FA become more problematic? If a phone wi…