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		nalzok on May 25, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The tiny corp raised $5.1M > The main advantage is in the tinygrad IR. It has 12 operations, all of which are ADD/MUL only. `x[3]` is supported, `x[y]` is not. Can someone educate me why that is the case? Does `x[y]` require a Turing-complete kernel to compute?

brrrrrm on May 25, 2023 [–]

layer of indirection introduces scatter/gather and other dynamic loads, which is tricky to optimize

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