Matrix multiplication using only addition

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3 years ago

Hi HN, this paper is my first proper academic publication, it's on arxiv only for now--this is a pre-print--but is being considered for publication by peer-reviewed journals concurrently. Open-access journals, of course.

I'm totally disinterested in tenure or academic recognition. For my goals being a Stanford dropout is better than any other amount of academic recognition. So i don't care about journals uh prestige numbers the impact factors i know that term but anything paywalled is bad for what i do care about, which is my business, fgemm. Means Fast/Faster/Fastest GEneral Matrix-Matrix multiplication. gemm is an acronym already used in BLAS libraries, Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms, which is what most of the time n money spent on ML goes to.

I'm going to be available to answer questions insofar as i can.

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