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| | The race for AI dominance isn't just about who has the most computing - it's increasingly about who can use it most efficiently. With the recent emergence of DeepSeek and other competitors in the AI space, even well-funded companies are discovering that raw computational power isn't enough. The ability to squeeze maximum performance out of hardware through low-level optimization is becoming a crucial differentiator. One powerful tool in this optimization arsenal is the ability to work directly with PTX, NVIDIA's low-level Instruction Set Architecture (ISA). However, PTX instructions are quite different from those for traditional CPU assembly. PTX Intermediate Representations (IR) live between high-level languages like CUDA and the actual hardware-specific Streaming Assembler (SASS) instructions. PTX is more akin to Java bytecode than x86 Assembly. And as we're about to discover, they can reach lengths that would make even the most verbose x86 "opcodes" blush!
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| Yesterday I talked about three re-inforcing feedback loops in the earth system, each of which has the potential to accelerate a warming trend once it has started. I also suggested there are other similar feedback loops, some of which are known, and others perhaps yet to be discovered. For example, a paper published last month