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GPU programming was very niche when Alex Zhang first became interested in it.

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

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“There's like other ones too that I've seen that like we've seen like there's many that have kind of spawned and like talked on GPU mode and like it's very exciting in the sense that I think GPU programming used to be super niche like when I was interested in it and the only reason I got interested in it was TreeDow gave a talk at Princeton.”
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