Python Optimization Techniques
Performance optimization strategies and CPython optimizations
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__slots__ Optimization
Understanding Python's __slots__ for memory optimization and faster attribute access
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Calculus for Machine Learning
Essential calculus concepts for understanding gradients, optimization, and backpropagation
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CUDA Multi-Process Service (MPS)
Understand NVIDIA CUDA Multi-Process Service (MPS), a client-server architecture that enables multiple CUDA processes to share a single GPU context for concurrent kernel execution and better utilization.
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Thread Safety: Concurrent Programming Fundamentals
Master thread safety concepts through interactive visualizations of race conditions, mutexes, atomic operations, and deadlock scenarios.
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Convolution Operation: The Foundation of CNNs
Master the convolution operation through interactive visualizations of sliding windows, feature detection, and the mathematical mechanics behind convolutional neural networks.
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Cross-Entropy Loss: The Foundation of Classification
Understand cross-entropy loss through interactive visualizations of probability distributions, gradient flow, and its connection to maximum likelihood estimation.
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Dilated Convolutions: Expanding Receptive Fields Efficiently
Master dilated (atrous) convolutions through interactive visualizations of dilation rates, receptive field expansion, gridding artifacts, and applications in segmentation.
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Feature Pyramid Networks: Multi-Scale Feature Fusion
Understand Feature Pyramid Networks (FPN) through interactive visualizations of top-down pathways, lateral connections, and multi-scale object detection.
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Receptive Field: Understanding CNN Vision
Explore how receptive fields grow through CNN layers with interactive visualizations of effective vs theoretical fields, architecture comparisons, and pixel contributions.
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Virtual Memory & TLB: Complete Guide to Address Translation
Comprehensive guide to virtual memory and TLB with interactive visualizations. Explore page tables, address translation, TLB mechanics, page faults, and performance optimization.
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CPU Pipelines & Branch Prediction: Modern Processor Architecture
Explore CPU pipeline stages, instruction-level parallelism, pipeline hazards, and branch prediction through interactive visualizations.
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Hazard Detection: Pipeline Dependencies and Solutions
Master pipeline hazards through interactive visualizations of data dependencies, control hazards, structural conflicts, and advanced detection mechanisms.
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Flash Attention: IO-Aware Exact Attention
Interactive visualization of Flash Attention - the breakthrough algorithm that makes attention memory-efficient through tiling, recomputation, and kernel fusion.
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KV Cache: The Secret to Fast LLM Inference
Interactive visualization of key-value caching in LLMs - how caching transformer attention states enables efficient text generation without quadratic recomputation.
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Memory Access Patterns: Sequential vs Strided
Understand how different memory access patterns impact cache performance, prefetcher efficiency, and overall application speed through interactive visualizations.
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Hierarchical Attention in Vision Transformers
Explore how hierarchical attention enables Vision Transformers (ViT) to process sequential data by encoding relative positions.
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Transparent Huge Pages (THP): Reducing TLB Pressure
Deep dive into Transparent Huge Pages (THP), a Linux kernel feature that automatically promotes 4KB pages to 2MB huge pages. Learn how THP reduces TLB misses, page table overhead, and improves performance—plus the hidden costs of memory bloat and latency spikes.
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MHA vs GQA vs MQA: Choosing the Right Attention
Compare Multi-Head, Grouped-Query, and Multi-Query Attention mechanisms to understand their trade-offs and choose the optimal approach for your use case.
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Grouped-Query Attention (GQA)
Learn how Grouped-Query Attention balances the quality of Multi-Head Attention with the efficiency of Multi-Query Attention, enabling faster inference in large language models.
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Linear Attention Approximations
Explore linear complexity attention mechanisms including Performer, Linformer, and other efficient transformers that scale to very long sequences.
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Multi-Query Attention (MQA)
Understand Multi-Query Attention, the radical efficiency optimization that shares keys and values across all attention heads, enabling massive memory savings for inference.
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Sliding Window Attention
Learn how Sliding Window Attention enables efficient processing of long sequences by limiting attention to local context windows, used in Mistral and Longformer.
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Sparse Attention Patterns
Explore sparse attention mechanisms that reduce quadratic complexity to linear or sub-quadratic, enabling efficient processing of long sequences.
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MSE and MAE Loss Functions
Understand Mean Squared Error (MSE) and Mean Absolute Error (MAE), the fundamental loss functions for regression tasks with different sensitivity to outliers.
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SoA vs AoS: Data Layout Optimization
Master Structure of Arrays (SoA) vs Array of Structures (AoS) data layouts for optimal cache efficiency, SIMD vectorization, and GPU memory coalescing with interactive visualizations.
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Understanding NVIDIA Persistence Daemon
Eliminating GPU initialization latency through nvidia-persistenced - a userspace daemon that maintains GPU driver state for optimal startup performance.
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Vector Quantization Techniques
Master vector compression techniques from scalar to product quantization. Learn how to reduce memory usage by 10-100× while preserving search quality.
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Adaptive Tiling: Efficient Visual Token Generation
Understanding adaptive tiling in vision transformers - a technique that dynamically adjusts image partitioning based on complexity to optimize token usage while preserving detail.
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Prompt Engineering: Guiding AI Through Language
Master the art of prompt engineering - from basic composition to advanced techniques like Chain-of-Thought and Tree-of-Thoughts.
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Neural Scaling Laws: The Mathematics of Model Performance
Understanding neural scaling laws - the power law relationships between model size, data, compute, and performance that govern AI capabilities and guide development decisions.
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Visual Complexity Analysis: Smart Image Processing
Understanding how AI models analyze visual complexity to optimize processing - measuring entropy, edge density, saliency, and texture for intelligent resource allocation.
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Quantization Effects Simulator
Explore memory-accuracy trade-offs in embedding quantization from float32 to binary representations.
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Multimodal Scaling Laws
Understanding how vision-language models scale with data, parameters, and compute following empirical power laws.
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Modern C++ Features (C++11 and Beyond)
Explore modern C++ features including auto, lambdas, ranges, and coroutines. Learn how C++11/14/17/20 transformed the language.
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C++ Compiler Optimization
Discover how compilers optimize your C++ code through various transformation techniques with interactive demos.
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Gradient Flow in Deep Networks
Understanding how gradients propagate through deep neural networks and the vanishing/exploding gradient problems.
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Gradient Descent
Visualize gradient descent optimization - how neural networks learn by following gradients.
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Internal Covariate Shift
Understanding the distribution shift problem in deep neural networks that batch normalization solves.
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CPU Performance & Optimization
Understanding CPU cycles, memory hierarchy, cache optimization, and performance analysis techniques
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