Graphics processors and co-processors have a long history. See Evans & Sutherland, Silicon Graphics, and now NVidia. This idea has been around since the 1970s. Quantum computers are not even where dedicated attached processors were 50 years ago.

The introduction mentions Lagrangian mechanics. So they use computational physics models (that are normally used for fluid flow) to model disease propagation. Sounds appropriate for a physics journal to me.

Bounds checks everywhere? If you go from begin to end through an array or a million elements? That's a a lot of wasted bound checking. Better use modern C++ "for each element in this array, do the following to it". No more bound checking needed, because you're dispensing with indices altogether.

It's more flexible than CUDA. In particular its task model is very powerful. It's like recursively spawning threads, but easier.

It's widely used in scientific applications. Distributing a loop with many many many iterations (statically or dynamically) over many cores is way easier in OpenMP than with threads. It's really an elegant way of expressing thread parallelism without having fork and join. The tasking mechanism brings it closer to traditional fork/join but it's still much more elegant.

.... without saying that your music has become formulaic.

You're on to something. Stack ranking the senior management.

"as long as you don't distribute it" I think that's a popular misconception. Of course if you don't show it to anyone they can't find you, but the principle holds.

100 million for good facilities? At a rough guess that's the cost for any one of 3 buildings that UT Austin put down for STEM-related departments.

You mean, as in the cost of any of 3 buildings UTexas Austin has put down recently for its top rated engineering school (I'm including CS)?

"When you declare you want a woman for a job" I'm pretty sure that's illegal, so your post is wrong from word one. The Grace Hopper conference is a way for recruiters to explicitly tell a certain section of the population "you should absolutely apply". That's all.

"blatant discrimination" Bull. The fact that they got in showed that there was no discrimination. It's just in poor taste that guys are intruding on a conference that's for women to talk about issues that concern them. If guys feel so discriminated they can organize their own conference.

Beside the point. The Grace Hopper conference is mainly for people identifying as women. Bunch of guys identifying as men abused that. Do you want me to define "identify"?

You're right on all counts. I pay a couple of bucks for the ad-free experience, but giving out occasional awards is fun, and sorta meaningful. And yes, the whole slew of non-gold awards is ridiculous and confusing.

Or maybe he has an offspring old enough? It's been a long time since Apple focused on usability, rather than design for its own sake. (In case you don't know Tog, search "Tog on Interface".)