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For matrix multiplication, a theoretical speed-of-light estimate of the fastest possible kernel is easy to calculate.

Alex Zhang · Academia is for Ambition — Alex Zhang, MIT · 2 Oct 2026

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“that's the problem is like for for matrix multiplication it's very easy to compute um this like speed of light kind of uh estimate of what the fastest kernel can be and like this is also assuming like you know maybe all of your”
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