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Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026) on Monday September 14, 2026 @09:40PM (#49706672)
why not just compare against a Pytorch reference instead of comparing the kernels to a separate scalar Rust implementation?

(is it for perf reasons because bottleneck becomes verification? Though in that case perhaps it's better to just run a Pytorch reference on the GPUs, which should be good enough. Though, perhaps if you could get this current design to the point where `overlap(CPU, GPU cuda) < GPU cuda + GPU reference` that would be pretty awesome.

Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026) on Monday September 14, 2026 @09:29PM (#49706594)
Would be cool if you could add coverage, for each GPU, of both rental price as well as purchase price (i.e. buy price := one of the spectrum of completed transactions on ebay, liquidator price, second hand price, new price, MSRP).

Always found the relationship between rental price and purchase price a bit peculiar.