That is a good way to think about it. What is the need from the reader’s perspective and from the poster’s.
One would certainly read a post with low upvotes from a author with high reputation if you are interested in the specific magazine. I wonder if the reputation should not be topic bound and not just general. That would be useful from the reader’s perspective.
Edit: Wrote this on mobile. The mobile U/I is not always clear as to the source magazine where the post came from, so I missed the Linux in there. Things are not as dire on Linux as on Windows for AMD, so my assessment may be a bit pessimistic. With AMD’s focus on the data centre for machine learning, the linux driver stack seems fairly well supported.
I spent the last few days getting stable defusion and pytorch working on my Radeon 6800 XT in windows. The machineml distribution of stable diffusion runs at about 1/4 of the speed of raw rocm when I compare it to the shark tooling, which supports rocm via docker on windows.
Expect tooling to be clinky and that you will need to compile everything yourself on linux. Prebuilt stuff will all be for Nvidia.
Amd is pushing hard into the ai space, but aiming at datacenter users. They are rumoured to be building rocm for their windows drivers, but when that will ship is anyone’s guess.
So right now, if you need to hit the ground running for your academic work, I would recommend NVidia, as much as it pains me, a long time AMD user.
I was looking for 1 in my old pc junk boxes, to show my 12 year old what they looked like. Not a single floppy survived.
It is like watching a slow train wreck. You know you should just look away, but you just cannot.
As a very long time reader of The Register, I actually enjoy their headlines. They have always had a tabloid style to them. Even before clickbait was a thing and I have seldom been disappointed at the contents of anything I have clicked on. So agreed, a quality site.
Arstechnica and The Register are my tow oldest daily reads.