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by fgdelcueto 881 days ago
Of course you mean the "normal" meaning of a kernel pertaining to Linear Algebra, right?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernel_(linear_algebra)

Of course I'm kidding. It's one of those terms that many fields adopt and give it completely different meaning. There's no "normal" meaning of `kernel`.