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Phase 0 · Mental Models
Under the Tensor
What a tensor actually is, and where Python time goes.
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Tasks
Tensor vs Storage, strides, dispatch, autograd — from a PyTorch core dev.
Sasha Rush's drills: broadcasting fluency without loops. Do all of them.
Engine host overhead (scheduler, API server) is Python. Find a real bottleneck in any project you own.
CMU 10-714 hw3-style: views share one flat buffer (zero copy), plus a compact() that materializes. This indexing math underlies paged-KV layouts, Triton pointer arithmetic, and coalescing analysis.