Horace He personal blog
Making deep learning go brrrr from first principles (2022)
So, you want to improve the performance of your deep learning model. How might you approach such a task? Often, folk fall back to a grab-bag of tricks that might've worked before or saw on a tweet. "Use in-place operations! Set gradients to None! Install PyTorch 1.10.0 but not 1.10.1!"
- Points
- 199
- HN comments
- 86
- Submissions
- 3
- Cited by
- 3 commenters
AI & Machine LearningSoftware Engineering2026
On Hacker News
| Submitted | Title on HN | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 23, 2026 | Making deep learning go brrrr from first principles (2022) by tosh | 199 | 67 |
| Sep 2, 2023 | Making deep learning go brrrr from first principles (2022) by jpdus | 102 | 18 |
| Mar 16, 2022 | Making Deep Learning Go Brrrr from First Principles by hiena03 | 55 | 1 |
Cited in comments
Linked from 4 Hacker News comments by 3 different people, from Mar 2022 to Nov 2023.
Most recent:
- chillee · Nov 30, 2023
- kuang_eleven · Dec 30, 2022
- chillee · Apr 14, 2022
- WithinReason · Mar 16, 2022
