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- 17 from 3 May 2025 to 18 Jun 2025
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2025 17
- Basic facts about GPUs
- Basic idea behind flash attention (V1)
- Using min cut to determine activation recomputation strategy
- Linear layouts, triton, and linear algebra over F_2
- Modded-NanoGPT Walkthrough II: Muon Optimizer, Model Architecture, and Parallelism
- Is AlphaEvolve problem B.1 hard?
- Modded-NanoGPT Walkthrough I: initial setup, compiler config, and custom FP8 operations
- DeepSeek-Prover-V2 overview
- Getting the hang of policy gradients by reframing optimization as RL
- All roads lead to likelihood: the value of reinforcement learning in fine-tuning
- Basic facts about policy gradients
- Adaptive data analysis via subsampling
- The ladder mechanism for ml competitions
- Weak baselines
- Multi head, multi query, and grouped query attention
- What is constitutional AI?
- What is kv cache?