Python Optimization Techniques
Python performance optimization guide: CPython peephole optimizer, lru_cache, profiling with cProfile, and Python 3.11+ adaptive bytecode specialization.
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__slots__ Optimization
Master Python __slots__ for 40-50% memory reduction and faster attribute access. Learn CPython descriptor protocol, inheritance patterns, and best practices.
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CUDA Multi-Process Service (MPS)
Learn CUDA Multi-Process Service (MPS) for GPU sharing. Enable concurrent kernel execution from multiple processes and maximize GPU utilization.
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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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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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Cross-Entropy Loss
Understand cross-entropy loss for classification: interactive demos of binary and multi-class CE, the -log(p) curve, softmax gradients, and focal loss.
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Dilated Convolutions: Expanding Receptive Fields Efficiently
Understand dilated (atrous) convolutions: how dilation rates expand receptive fields exponentially without extra parameters and how to avoid gridding artifacts.
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Virtual Memory & TLB: Complete Guide to Address Translation
Master virtual memory and TLB address translation with interactive demos. Learn page tables, page faults, and memory management optimization.
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Memory Access Patterns: Sequential vs Strided
Master sequential vs strided memory access patterns. Learn how cache efficiency and hardware prefetching affect application performance.
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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
Learn how Transparent Huge Pages (THP) reduces TLB misses by promoting 4KB to 2MB pages. Understand performance benefits and memory bloat tradeoffs.
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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 (GQA) balances Multi-Head quality with Multi-Query efficiency for faster LLM inference.
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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)
Learn Multi-Query Attention (MQA), the optimization that shares keys and values across attention heads for massive memory savings.
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Sliding Window Attention
Sliding Window Attention for long sequences: local context windows enable O(n) complexity, used in Mistral and Longformer models.
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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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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.
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MSE and MAE Loss Functions
Interactive guide to MSE vs MAE for regression: explore outlier sensitivity, gradient behavior, and Huber loss with 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
Learn adaptive tiling in vision transformers: dynamically partition images based on visual complexity to reduce token counts by up to 80% while preserving detail where it matters.
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Prompt Engineering
Master prompt engineering for large language models: from basic composition to Chain-of-Thought, few-shot, and advanced techniques with interactive visualizations.
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Neural Scaling Laws
Explore neural scaling laws in deep learning: power law relationships between model size, data, and compute that predict AI performance, with interactive visualizations.
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Visual Complexity Analysis: Smart Image Processing
Learn visual complexity analysis in deep learning - how neural networks measure entropy, edges, and saliency for adaptive image processing.
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Quantization Effects Simulator
Embedding quantization simulator: explore memory-accuracy trade-offs from float32 to int8 and binary representations for retrieval.
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Flash Attention: IO-Aware Exact Attention
Interactive Flash Attention visualization - the IO-aware algorithm achieving memory-efficient exact attention through tiling and kernel fusion.
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KV Cache: The Secret to Fast LLM Inference
Interactive KV cache visualization - how key-value caching in LLM transformers enables fast text generation without quadratic recomputation.
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Multimodal Scaling Laws
Discover how multimodal vision-language models like CLIP, ALIGN, and LLaVA scale with data, parameters, and compute following Chinchilla-style 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
C++ compiler optimization: loop unrolling, inlining, dead code elimination. Learn GCC and Clang optimization flags and techniques.
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Gradient Flow in Deep Networks
Learn how gradients propagate through deep neural networks during backpropagation. Understand vanishing and exploding gradient problems with interactive visualizations.
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Understanding num_workers
Deep dive into PyTorch DataLoader num_workers parameter: how parallel workers prefetch data, optimal configuration, and common pitfalls.
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NAdam: Nesterov-Accelerated Adam
Understand the NAdam optimizer that fuses Adam adaptive learning rates with Nesterov look-ahead momentum for faster, smoother convergence in deep learning.
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Internal Covariate Shift
Understand internal covariate shift in deep learning: why layer input distributions change during training, how it slows convergence, and how batch normalization fixes it.
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CPU Performance & Optimization
CPU performance optimization: memory hierarchy, cache blocking, SIMD vectorization, and profiling tools for modern processors.
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