Widespread conspiracy theories have consequences, but I'm bothered by popular mocking of "Do you do 'your own research'?" I have also seen mocking of docs with extensive footnotes. I would rather hope that with improved rational thinking tools, the urge could be a positive force.

My son's HS linear algebra class gave them an assignment to implement a program to calculate determinants by cofactor expansion. They had the choice to do it in python or java, and they were supposed to try to be efficient. I am happy that the teacher could expect that everyone \

For an application that is completely cache-unfriendly and bandwidth bound, are cheap GPUs still the most cost effective way to get GB/s/$, or is there a scalable SoC+memory solution with weaker compute and latency characteristics that is more cost effective?