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williamdclt on July 11, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: Grok: Searching X for "From:Elonmusk (Israel or Pa...

Are you talking about a DAG of FP calculations, where parallel steps might finish in different order across different executions? That's getting out of my area of knowledge, but I'd believe it's possible

saagarjha on July 13, 2025 [–]

Well a very simple example would be if you run a parallel reduce using atomics the result will depend on which workers acquire the accumulator first.

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