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.

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CamperBob2 8 hours ago | parent [-]

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.

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__patchbit__ 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Use the AI prompt to pinprick learn.

Just say to the AI, "Explain THIS".

	▲	RobotToaster 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		ChatGPT Told me MLIR stands for "Modern Life Is Rubbish"

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ipnon 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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.

	▲	CamperBob2 7 hours ago \| parent [-]
		HTTP and HTML are very common acronyms; nobody should be getting out of high school these days without knowing them, and if they somehow managed to do so, they're darned sure not reading HN. Even SQL is pretty hard to avoid if you've been in an IT-adjacent industry for a while. However, MLIR is a highly-specialized term. The problem with failing to define a term like that is that I don't know up front if I'm the target audience for the article. I had to Google it, and when I did that, all I found at first were yet more articles that failed to define it. Wikipedia gets the job done, but these days, Wikipedia is often a long way down the Google search results list. I think they downranked it when they started force-feeding AI answers (which also didn't help).