The real problem is a lack of a common API for encoding regardless of GPU/CPU, which leads to vendor-specific implementations with varying degrees of quality. The most efficient way to pretty much do anything is a dedicated HW block (from both perf and power point of view), so there is no question that there is value in encoding using dedicated hardware, but the software has to catch up.

The key part of the article is "according to vaccine researchers"...

One man's USB treasure is another man's garbage...

I'm no mathematician, but the proof in the paper looks very solid (certainly makes sense from a coding point of view). Though the proof is more general, it also pretty much demonstrates that factorization can't be achieved in polynomial time (thus that RSA is indeed secure).

Many image-enhancement techniques exist that do just this, and this is not really new. In fact this proves that square pixels work just fine to transmit the information, but the image can be enhanced to a larger resolution by non-linear techniques that work better than simple [traditional] upsampling.

nice.