Ways to Fool the Masses Giving Performance Results on Vector Computers (1991)

Re:Ways to Fool the Masses Giving Performance Results on Vec... by et2o on Saturday July 13, 2019 @09:54AM (#20428059)

What's the anecdote about buying a sailboat every year a reference to?

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Re:Ways to Fool the Masses Giving Performance Results on Vec... by tangus on Saturday July 13, 2019 @10:02AM (#20428093)

Burning it, actually. It's a legend about how Seymour Cray would design and build a sailboat every year only to burn it afterward, so he could design a better one, or something like that.

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Re:Ways to Fool the Masses Giving Performance Results on Vec... by redis_mlc on Saturday July 13, 2019 @06:45PM (#20430616)

Also, sailing in small wooden boats used to be a thing with STEM folks in the 50's and 60's.

If you read any biographies of US physicists of the time, it seems they either all sailed, or had a close scientist friend that owned a boat.

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