https://amir-ghz.github.io/blog/ Sparse acceleration, GPU kernels, and hardware-software co-design. en-us Sun, 31 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://amir-ghz.github.io/blog/two-lotteries/ https://amir-ghz.github.io/blog/two-lotteries/ Sun, 31 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 amir.g@ucf.edu (Amir Ghazizadeh) Sparsity Hardware accelerators Machine learning made two lottery arguments seven years apart and never put them in the same room. One says most of a trained network is surplus. The other says the hardware of the day decides whether you can collect on it.