Comment by CamperBob2
9 months ago
Fun game: see how many clicks it takes you to learn what MLIR stands for.
I lost count at five or six. Define your acronyms on first use, people.
9 months ago
Fun game: see how many clicks it takes you to learn what MLIR stands for.
I lost count at five or six. Define your acronyms on first use, people.
GPU programming definitely is not beginner friendly. There's a much higher learning curve than most open source projects. To learn basic Python you need to know about definitions and loops and variables, but to learn CUDA kernels you need to know maybe an order of magnitude more concepts to write anything useful. It's just not worth the time to cater to people who don't RTFM, the README would be twice as long and be redundant to the target audience of the library.
That's the whole problem. I had to "R" multiple "FMs" before one of them bothered to define the acronym.
Stop carrying water for poor documentation practice.
It's kind of like if the Django README explained how SQL works, the structure of HTTP requests, best practices for HTML, and so on. If you don't know what MLIR is, you might not be the target audience for this library. Nvidia in general doesn't prioritize developer experience as much as companies like Meta do for open source projects like React.
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Use the AI prompt to pinprick learn.
Just say to the AI, "Explain THIS".
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This is a GitHub repo for compiler engineers.
Cool. This is a site for hackers of all stripes.
I don't give "finance hackers" or "growth hackers" the time of day. Many hackers are held in utter contempt, and often for a very good reason.
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Yes, so given that you clearly had trouble figuring out what it was, maybe you could have shared with the class?
I did it in three. I selected it in your comment, and then had to hit "more" to get to the menu to ask Google about it, which brought me to https://www.google.com/search?q=MLIR which says: MLIR is an open-source compiler infrastructure project developed as a sub-project of the LLVM project. Hopefully
Get better at computers and stop needing to be spoon-fed information, people!
In this day and age, asking questions about what something is is a minefield of “just ask AI” and “You should know this”. Let’s stop putting down people who ask questions and root out those that have shitty answers.
Google is nearly 30 years old
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I get why it feels frustrating when someone snaps "just google it." Nobody likes feeling dumb. That said, there’s a meaningful difference between asking a genuine question and demanding that every discussion be padded to accommodate readers who won’t even type four letters into a search bar. Expecting complete spoon-feeding in technical threads isn’t curiosity; it’s a refusal to engage. Learning requires participation.
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From Wikipedia: The name "Multi-Level Intermediate Representation" reflects the system’s ability to model computations at various abstraction levels and progressively lower them toward machine code.
And yet you didn’t tell us what it stands for, just what it is. The person you’re responding to was specifically talking about finding out what it stands for
Based on the use of LLVM I guessed "Machine Learning Intermediate Representation"?
How close was I?
The ol’ TMA problem.
If only there was a chat-based app that you could ask questions to.