I’m being earnest: what is an appropriate level of computer architecture knowledge? SIMD is 50 years old.

From the resource intro: > Expected background: We’re going to assume you have a basic understanding of LLMs and the Transformer architecture but not necessarily how they operate at scale.

I suppose this doesn’t require any knowledge about how computers work, but core CPU functionality seems…reasonable?

SIMD is quite old but the changes Nvidia made to call it SIMT and that they used as an excuse to call their vector lanes "cores" are quite a bit newer.