ADSP: Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs

In this episode, Conor and Bryce continue their chat with Mark Saroufim about autoresearch, productionizing AI-generated GPU kernels, GPU MODE, books, video games and more!
Link to Episode 304 on Website
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About the Guest:
Mark Saroufim is a cofounder at Core Automation, PyTorch maintainer and cofounder of GPU MODE.
Show Notes
Date Recorded: 2026-07-20
Date Released: 2026-09-18
Core Automation
GPU MODE
PyTorch
ADSP Episode 294: Histocache
CUB Library
QR GPU MODE Problem
Modal
GPU MODE Lecture 108: One Layer Deeper competition
onelayerdeeper.ai
The Peterman Pod
Boris Cherny (Creator of Claude Code) On What Grew His Career And Building at Anthropic (Peterman Pod)
Permutation City by Greg Egan
A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge
Mark's Bookshelf
Mark's Top 10 Books
Journey to the Ants
Visual Group Theory
The Theory of Fun
Working with Legacy Code
The Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics
Game Theoretic Foundations for Probability and Finance
NVFP4 GPU MODE Problem
laplace-torch
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In this episode, Conor and Bryce continue their chat with Mark Saroufim about open vs closed models, numerical correctness, AI-generated GPU kernels, autoresearch and more!
Link to Episode 303 on Website
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Conor Hoekstra: LinkTree / Bio
Bryce Adelstein Lelbach: Twitter | BlueSky
About the Guest:
Mark Saroufim is a cofounder at Core Automation, PyTorch maintainer and cofounder of GPU MODE.
Show Notes
Date Recorded: 2026-07-20
Date Released: 2026-09-11
Core Automation
GPU MODE
PyTorch
QR GPU MODE Problem
NVFP4 GPU MODE Problem
laplace-torch
Intro Song Info
Miss You by Sarah Jansen https://soundcloud.com/sarahjansenmusic
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In this episode, Conor and Bryce chat with Mark Saroufim about his path from AI theory and Microsoft to Graphcore and PyTorch, what he learned from open source, building the GPU MODE community, and his work automating AI systems research at Core Automation.
Link to Episode 302 on Website
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ADSP: The Podcast: Twitter
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Bryce Adelstein Lelbach: Twitter | BlueSky
About the Guest:
Mark Saroufim is a cofounder at Core Automation, PyTorch maintainer and cofounder of GPU MODE.
Show Notes
Date Recorded: 2026-07-20
Date Released: 2026-09-04
Core Automation
GPU MODE
Graphcore
The Robot Overlord Manual
Machine Learning: The Great Stagnation
PyTorch
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In this episode, Conor and Bryce chat about the future of technical communities, AI fluency, Conor's existential crisis, Auto Research Academy and more!
Link to Episode 301 on Website
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Show Notes
Date Recorded: 2026-08-12
Date Released: 2026-08-28
GOSIM Conferences
Modal
EURO PYTHON
GPU MODE
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In this episode, Conor and Bryce celebrate the 300th episode fo ADSP by catching up with Sean Parent!
Link to Episode 300 on Website
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About the Guest:
Sean Parent is a principal scientist and software architect for Adobe Photoshop. Sean has been at Adobe since 1993 when he joined as a senior engineer working on Photoshop and later managed Adobe’s Software Technology Lab. In 2009 Sean spent a year at Google working on Chrome OS before returning to Adobe. From 1988 through 1993 Sean worked at Apple, where he was part of the system software team that developed the technologies allowing Apple’s successful transition to PowerPC.
Show Notes
Date Recorded: 2026-08-19
Date Released: 2026-08-21
POD GOD
CppCast
cpp.chat
Sean Parent - Papers and Presentations
ADSP Episode 299: Do We Need Humans in the Loop?
NVIDIA CCCL
cel-rs
Stepanov Papers
Bob Tarjan
Tarjan's strongly connected components algorithm
Soylent Green is people!
Claude Code
The Last Emperor - A Gentleman
Jonathon Blow on the Quality of Software (Software is in Decline)
Lean Programming Language
Dafny Programming Language
Creator of TypeScript: 10x Faster Typescript, Why AI Won't Replace SWEs | Anders Hejlsberg
autoresearch
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