Fusion blends (fuses) traditional x86 computing cores, which compute things serially or one after the other, with graphics processors, which compute them in parallel or all at the same time.

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At the same time, China from 1979 to 2009 is a case study without parallel: creating wealth by mirroring some behaviors and values of the people who have the money.

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Some jobs can and have to be run in parallel, but one person should probably not be doing more than one thing literally at the same time, lest quality suffer.

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