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ymsodev
27 days ago
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Speeding up PyTorch inference on Apple devices wit...
The article is referring to GPU compute kernel (
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compute_kernel
), not the term kernel used in ML/NN/etc.
saagarjha
26 days ago
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…aren't they the same thing
ymsodev
25 days ago
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They're not, but I also misunderstood the original question, they're referring to the correct definition of kernel. I thought they were confusing the GPU kernel with
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernel_method
or
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernel_(image_processing)
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