> Whereas in CUDA programming, a kernel is just the code running on the device. When I first heard kernel in relation to CUDA programming, I expected it to be a

> Whereas in CUDA programming, a kernel is just the code running on the device. When I first heard kernel in relation to CUDA programming, I expected it to be a) the actual OS kernel, and then b) something akin to a GPU driver. I think this is still not the machine learning 'kernel' being talked about. While you'd inevitably need to know about this for tooling in the space, looks like kernel is also a mathematical term.