#155 CUDA and GPU Programming with Elliot Arledge

The freeCodeCamp Podcast

Quincy Larson

Education, Technology

5.0 • 549 Ratings

🗓️ 10 January 2025

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

On this week's episode of the podcast, freeCodeCamp founder Quincy Larson interviews Elliot Arledge. He's a 20-year old computer science student who's created several popular freeCodeCamp courses on LLMs, the Mojo programming language, and GPU programming with CUDA. He joins us from Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

We talk about:

- Building AI systems from scratch
- How Elliot has learned so much so quickly and his methods
- How he approaches reading academic papers
- His CS degree coursework VS his self-directed learning

In the intro I play the 1988 Double Dragon II game soundtrack song "Into the Turf"

Support for this podcast comes from a grant from Wix Studio. Wix Studio provides developers tools to rapidly build websites with everything out-of-the-box, then extend, replace, and break boundaries with code. Learn more at https://wixstudio.com.

Support also comes from the 11,043 kind folks who support freeCodeCamp through a monthly donation. Join these kind folks and help our mission by going to https://www.freecodecamp.org/donate

Links we talk about during our conversation:

- Elliot's Mojo course on freeCodeCamp: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/new-mojo-programming-language-for-ai-developers/

- Elliot's Cuda GPU programming course on freeCodeCamp: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-cuda-programming/

- Elliot's Python course on building an LLM from scratch: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-build-a-large-language-model-from-scratch-using-python/

- Elliot's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@elliotarledge

- Elliot's many projects on GitHub: https://github.com/Infatoshi

Transcript

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0:00.0	Sometimes people will look at something and they'll see the surface area of it.
0:03.6	Like they'll see the surface area of this of this whole cube. And by the time they've like jumped on the surface, they see that it's like, oh, this thing is solid. I can't just bounce on it anymore. And then there's like some depth to it as well. So you see all these other things that are happening. And it's like, oh, I'll just go and learn that. and then you realize when you jump on that part of the cube,
0:22.8	it's like, oh, there's just go and learn that. And then you realize when you jump on that part of the cube, it's like, oh, there's a whole, like,
0:24.5	there's a whole line straight down and a bunch of other things that come with it, right? So that was,
0:29.4	that definitely took me by storm. That was, yeah, that, that stuff always gets me, but it was worth it.
0:35.9	Welcome back to the Free Code Camp podcast, your source for raw, unedited interviews with developers.
0:43.5	Today's musical intro with yours truly on the drums, guitar, bass, and keys, 1988, double dragon two into the turf.
0:54.2	Yeah. Double Dragon 2 into the turf The Turf The Tourf. The
1:13.6	The Welcome back to the Free Coke Camp podcast.
1:38.4	I'm Quincy Larson, teacher and founder of FreakokeCamp.org.
1:42.0	Each week we're talking with developers, founders, and ambitious people in tech.
1:46.2	This week we're talking with Elliot Arledge.
1:49.2	He's a 20-year-old computer science student who's created several popular free code camp courses on LLMs, the Mojo Programming Language, and GPU programming with Kuda.
2:00.7	He joins us from Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
2:04.9	Before we talk to Elliot, support for this podcast comes from a grant from Wix Studio.
2:09.7	Wick Studio provides developers tools to rapidly build websites with everything out of the box,
2:14.2	then extend, replace, and break boundaries with code.
2:18.8	Learn more at wickstudio.com.
2:21.4	Support also comes from the 11,043 kind folks who support Freecode Camp through a monthly
2:27.8	donation.
2:28.4	Join these kind folks and help our mission by going to freecodecamp.org slash donate.
2:34.4	Elliot, welcome to the podcast.
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