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The debate over our need for foreign workers begins in our schools. US education has failed students, especially with math. We need to fix that to end the need for H-1B visas.

3. LLMs want to do math ops on giant matrices. This would be terrible on CPUs and is relatively straightforward on a giant vector processor (matrix ops are just combinations of vector ops).