Unlearning High School Matmul: The Mental Shift Needed to Write GPU Kernels
sumitdotml · x · 2026-10-14
The author notes that when studying GPU kernels, his brain keeps defaulting to the sequential matmul visualization he learned in high school — "there is so much to unlearn." A relatable take on the mental shift from math intuition to parallel computing.
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