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I actually think this link helps: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1575233618170982400.html https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1575233618170982400.html All o
by kop316 4y ago
I actually think this link helps: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1575233618170982400.html https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1575233618170982400.html
All of the statements are small and almost have to be encapsulated to make sense. This robs a lot of nuance and background information that is assumed you would know, or you have to dig up (with little help from the Tweet), to appreciate most of the context. Without it, all I get from the tweet is "Intel Bad".
To take a couple of examples fromm the Tweet:
> Yes, Intel is shipping to Argonne now. Great. How much of it? All of it at once?
I have no context for this. Presumably Intel Argonna is an HPC, and I suppose it is late. Is it late by a year, 5 years, 10 years? Is it worse than something else? What am I supposed to make of it? I have to dig up a bunch of background info to understand what this means.
> But I do know the worst thing Intel could do—did do—this week: host a glittering event that heralded an era of sparkling, Moores Law defying technical progress that for people in the HPC camp found *painfully tone deaf.*
Ok...what event? Could you please name it?
3 tweets later...
> This year at the annual Supercomputing Conference
Ok....maybe looking "annual Supercomputing Conference" will find something, (which it does). But There is nothing on "host a glittering event".
https://sc22.supercomputing.org/attend/schedule/ https://sc22.supercomputing.org/attend/schedule/
Nope.
I could go on...but you see my point (hopefully). So now I have a bunch of stuff (that I cannot easily verify) from someone I don't know, and presumably I am supposed to take it all at face value.
This person seems like they know what they are talking about, but considering the terrible Signal-to-Noise Ratio of Twitter, I am not going to accept anything on there at face value.