Damn, I asked Claude to "ELI-undergrad" something and it replied with:
"Let me explain [it] in a way that I wish someone had explained it to me when I was learning it."
#Claude
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> The first version is basically telling the CPU: "Hey, I'm going to read this memory in order, you can prefetch the next cache line." While the second is more like: "Surprise! We're jumping to a random memory location! Again! And again!"
> It's amazing how many performance problems boil down to "stop making the CPU cache sad" 😆​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
See? The AI gets it