I&#x27;m trying very hard to follow along but this quickly devolves into language that isn&#x27;t easy to follow. When he starts going into combining &quot;bitonic globs&quot; is when I start having trouble focusing.<p>For someone that&#x27;s familiar with parallel programming topics and language, is this talk easy to follow? I&#x27;m trying to figure out if the fault lies with myself or the presenter. The vibe I&#x27;m getting is that showing slides full of code in an obscure language isn&#x27;t a good teaching method, but I also don&#x27;t have the prerequisite background here so my opinion isn&#x27;t useful. I also don&#x27;t do work that involves these classes of problems.