I'm trying very hard to follow along but this quickly devolves into language that isn't easy to follow. When he starts going into combining "bitonic globs" is when I start having trouble focusing.

For someone that's familiar with parallel programming topics and language, is this talk easy to follow? I'm trying to figure out if the fault lies with myself or the presenter. The vibe I'm getting is that showing slides full of code in an obscure language isn't a good teaching method, but I also don't have the prerequisite background here so my opinion isn't useful. I also don't do work that involves these classes of problems.