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Does not appear to have anything to do with operating systems... looks AI related
by ranger_danger 5mo ago
Does not appear to have anything to do with operating systems... looks AI related
- thephyber 5mo agoYes, kernel is an overloaded term. This is about functions running on GPUs, not Operating System core functionality.
- srean 5mo agoNot specifically those either. This is about inner product functions in a specific kind of Hilbert spaces, a notion that is very useful in many branches of applied mathematics. Machine learning and functional analysis included. The name collision is unfortunate. One unfortunate difficulty is that these kernels don't map so well to GPU kernels unless explicitly embedded in high dimensional spaces. This is one of the reasons why kernel methods has recently fallen out of favour in machine learning - lack of mechanical sympathy. Note this just one reason, there are others.
- sohex 5mo agoNamespace collision
- trumpdong 5mo ago"AI" now refers to things like ChatGPT - this is ML related (machine learning) which is the thing that used to be called AI six years ago
- ranger_danger 5mo agoI don't think there is a single universally applicable definition of "AI" that even most people would agree with.
- esafak 5mo agoNo, it is ML/AI related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernel_method https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernel_method
- dullcrisp 5mo agoSadly those of us hoping to learn about making popcorn are forced to look elsewhere.