Kinda like how I understood what you meant here ("absolutely devoid of context") in spite of your error ("derived of context"). Sometimes we need to make an effort to understand.
I wouldn't make you feel bad by saying "that's a broken sentence! I can't understand it!"
What, exactly, is misleading? The title of the blogpost is "Sorting Algorithms with CUDA" and I didn't get the feeling that the author is touting their "Bottom-up iterative merge sort" is the fastest possible way of sorting with CUDA. There is even a "Future Work" section at the end, implying even the author know it can be done better.
I think the faux-academic style is throwing people off.
If author is taking a truly academic perspective, then a section should be included with background on state of the art, best known performance, etc.
If this is just a blog post (which is more likely) with less rigor, then the style could reflect that better. For instance, calling it an "introduction" or "exercise".
How many academic papers start with "I went for a NVIDIA recruiting event some days ago, that was a great event and it motivated me to try to rewrite the sorting algorithms using CUDA."
Pet peeve but I hate it when people named something lame after something much cooler. Same problem with Ansible, Raytracter etc. It feels like you're compensating for how lame the product is.
He seems to take a lot of things that are fairly neutral or merely untactful as being bad faith. Like the "thin blue line" comment by Dr Greg. Sure the whole thing blue line thing in reference to the police misrepresents their role in society (police in most western countries are fairly useless at best and actively harmful at worse), but Occam's razor just suggests that Dr Greg was just making a tactless remark rather than being super pro po-po.
Regardless of whether hector is asahi Lina or not, the whole vtuber doing work that's important to a lot of people has a kinda off vibe and makes me a bit uncomfortable.
> Regardless of whether hector is asahi Lina or not
This isn't up for debate. There's tons of evidence out there, including the stream where his VTuber software failed briefly and he "doxxed" himself. It's not a fake. I was there watching, and rooting for him to succeed.
Rather than further clutter up this thread with the same links, yet again, I refer you to:
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