ADSP: Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs

In this episode, Conor and Bryce chat with Marco Franzreb Salgado about the state of AI, whether AI should do our taxes and more.

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About the Guest:

Marco is a software engineer at NVIDIA, where he works on improving the nvCOMP library, which offers fast GPU implementations of multiple data compression formats. For the past couple of months he has been working on a GPU implementation of the rotate algorithm.

Show Notes

Date Recorded: 2026-05-05
Date Released: 2026-05-22

• ADSP Episode 237: Thrust with Jared Hoberock
• ADSP Episode 284: GPU Rotate
• ADSP Episode 285: GPU Rotate (Part 2)
• NVIDIA nvCOMP
• GOSIM PARIS
• Life update: Zig, AI, unemployment, and more

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In this episode, Conor and Bryce chat with Marco Franzreb Salgado about profiling GPU code with NVIDIA Nsight Compute (NCU).

• Link to Episode 286 on Website
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About the Guest:

Marco is a software engineer at NVIDIA, where he works on improving the nvCOMP library, which offers fast GPU implementations of multiple data compression formats. For the past couple of months he has been working on a GPU implementation of the rotate algorithm.

Show Notes

Date Recorded: 2026-05-05
Date Released: 2026-05-15

• ADSP Episode 237: Thrust with Jared Hoberock
• ADSP Episode 284: GPU Rotate
• ADSP Episode 285: GPU Rotate (Part 2)
• NVIDIA CCCL
• NVIDIA nvCOMP
• NVIDIA Nsight Systems
• NVIDIA Nsight Compute
• NVIDIA CuTe DSL
• NVIDIA CUDA Tile
• cudaMemCopyAsync
• PERF WARS: EPISODE I
• Hoogle Translate partition
• Singeli
• ADSP Episode 97: C++ vs Carbon vs Circle vs CppFront with Sean Baxter

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In this episode, Conor and Bryce chat with Marco Franzeb Salgado about a potential GPU implementation of the rotate algorithm (Part 2).

• Link to Episode 285 on Website
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About the Guest:

Marco is a software engineer at NVIDIA, where he works on improving the nvCOMP library, which offers fast GPU implementations of multiple data compression formats. For the past couple of months he has been working on a GPU implementation of the rotate algorithm.

Show Notes

Date Recorded: 2026-05-05
Date Released: 2026-05-08

• ADSP Episode 237: Thrust with Jared Hoberock
• ADSP Episode 284: GPU Rotate
• NVIDIA CCCL
• NVIDIA nvCOMP
• NVIDIA Nsight Systems
• NVIDIA Nsight Compute
• NVIDIA CuTe DSL
• NVIDIA CUDA Tile

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In this episode, Conor and Bryce chat with Marco Franzeb about a potential GPU implementation of the rotate algorithm.

• Link to Episode 284 on Website
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• ADSP: The Podcast: Twitter
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• Bryce Adelstein Lelbach: Twitter

About the Guest:

Marco is a software engineer at NVIDIA, where he works on improving the nvCOMP library, which offers fast GPU implementations of multiple data compression formats. For the past couple of months he has been working on a GPU implementation of the rotate algorithm.

Show Notes

Date Recorded: 2026-04-23
Date Released: 2026-05-01

• ADSP Episode 237: Thrust with Jared Hoberock
• NVIDIA CCCL
• NVIDIA nvCOMP
• NVIDIA Nsight Systems
• NVIDIA Nsight Compute
• NVIDIA CuTe DSL
• NVIDIA CUDA Tile

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In this episode, Conor and Bryce chat with Marco Salgado about his journey from no programming experience to NVIDIA in < 3.5 years.

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• Conor Hoekstra: LinkTree / Bio
• Bryce Adelstein Lelbach: Twitter

About the Guest:

Marco is a software engineer at NVIDIA, where he works on improving the nvCOMP library, which offers fast GPU implementations of multiple data compression formats. For the past couple of months he has been working on a GPU implementation of the rotate algorithm.

Show Notes

Date Recorded: 2026-04-23
Date Released: 2026-04-24

• ADSP Episode 237: Thrust with Jared Hoberock
• NVIDIA CCCL
• NVIDIA nvCOMP
• NVIDIA Nsight Systems
• NVIDIA Nsight Compute
• C++TO Meetup: Parrot - Array GPU Programming

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In this episode, Conor and Ben chat about programming language archeology!

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Show Notes

Date Recorded: 2026-03-30
Date Released: 2026-04-17

• C++ Operator Precedence
• B
• BCPL
• Programming Languages: History and Fundamentals by Jean Sammet
• A History of Mathematical Notations by Florian Cajori
• Notation as a Tool of Thought
• Definition of arbitrary
• Definition of capricious
• Definition of aleatory

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In this episode, Conor and Ben chat about Haskell deforestation, hylomorphisms, boost ranges, Jello and more!

• Link to Episode 281 on Website
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Show Notes

Date Recorded: 2026-03-30
Date Released: 2026-04-10

• Deforestation
• Pearls of Functional Algorithm Design
• Algegraic Identities for Program Calculation (1989)
• The Algebra of Programming (1996)
• Kadane's Algorithm
• A short cut to deforestation (1993)
• Hylomorphism
• Stepanov's "Notes on Higher Order Programming in Scheme"
• Boost Ranges
• Jello

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In this episode, Conor and Ben chat about major features shipping in C++26, GCC vs Clang and more!

• Link to Episode 280 on Website
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Show Notes

Date Recorded: 2026-03-30
Date Released: 2026-04-03

• ISO C++ Standards Committee Panel Discussion 2025 - Hosted by Herb Sutter - CppCon 2025
• Kate Gregory - It's Complicated - Meeting C++ 2017 Keynote
• mp-units
• SI - International System of Units
• Iterators and Ranges: Comparing C++ to D to Rust - Barry Revzin - [CppNow 2021]
• Practical Reflection With C++26 - Barry Revzin - CppCon 2025
• Using the C++ Sender/Receiver Framework: Implement Control Flow for Async Processing - Steve Downey
• C++Now 2024 - Embedded Asynchronous Abstraction C++ - Implementing Senders & Receivers Without an OS - Ben Deane
• Keynote: Employing Senders & Receivers to Tame Concurrency in C++ Embedded Systems - Michael Caisse

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In this episode, Conor and Bryce chat about ArrayBox.dev, some Parrot algorithms, the future of agentic software development and more!

• Link to Episode 279 on Website
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• Transcript

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Show Notes

Date Recorded: 2026-03-10
Date Released: 2026-03-27

• arraybox.dev
• TryAPL
• BQNPAD
• UiuaPAD
• emscripten
• J Language: From C to C++20 - LiveStream
• Safe3.dyalog
• Bill Burr destroyed Steve Jobs
• Software is in Decline - Jonathan Blow
• Parrot
• Parrot on GitHub
• CCCL cuda.compute
• Hoogle Translate where
• ZuriHac
• Northwest C++ Users' Group
• podgod.ca

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In this episode, Conor and Bryce chat about the age of ideas, whether AI will lead to cognitive atrophy, some exiciting personal news and more!

• Link to Episode 278 on Website
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• Transcript

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Show Notes

Date Recorded: 2026-03-10
Date Released: 2026-03-20

• Hank Green - This is Going to be Very Messy
• arraybox.dev
• podgod.ca
• kp (Kernel Profiler)

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