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# Selman + Felix masters thesis meeting

* https://github.com/NVIDIA-Merlin/dataloader
* https://xarray.dev/blog/xarray-kvikio
* Felix
    * Loading data via Merlin into pytoch cuDF
    * Number of epochs
* Uber petastorm (something on spark)
* Felix – description of tasks
    * Benchmarking the loading
    * Making sure loading is the issue
    * How are we loading, what are the mechanisms of loading?
    * Model performance, effect of loading by batch - need for randomizing
        * Randomization of chunks
* https://github.com/libffcv/ffcv
* Masters thesis 
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