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Subject: Re: DTS article robert hyatt - revealing his bad math

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 14:38:43 09/03/02

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On September 03, 2002 at 17:03:16, Jeremiah Penery wrote:

>On September 03, 2002 at 13:38:21, Matthew Hull wrote:
>
>>On September 03, 2002 at 13:07:54, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:
>>
>>>On September 03, 2002 at 13:05:30, Matthew Hull wrote:
>>>
>>>It gives the reason why i took a closer statistical look
>>>at his data. In order to find what his speed penalties were
>>>for processors. Then the fraud he committed was easy to find
>>>out.
>>>
>>
>>Look man, if all you got is that 13.00000 to prove your point, it's a pretty
>>thin thread to hang your argument on.  It looks like you're really reaching.
>>
>>And don't worry that you can't duplicate the numbers with DIEP on some
>>supercomputer.  If it's not a Cray, you won't be able to anyway.
>>
>>But if you ever get a quad XEON with interleaved memory, and still can't get to
>>1.7, then at least you're getting closer to a real argument.
>
>Perhaps you missed some of the threads from a while back (a year or so).
>Vincent has claimed to get >2.0 speedup on 2 processors before.  I'm not sure
>why suddenly he changes this to 1.6 or whatever now.  Seems to me he makes up
>whatever numbers he wants to 'prove' his points, because obviously whatever he
>says becomes a proof.


That is his definition of a "proof".  If he says it it is a "proof".

Wish my advanced calculus (no, not calc 1,2,3,4) prof would have accepted
that back in 1969.  :)  But alas, I had to do more formal proofs to get any
credit in those classes. :)



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