Hi! Manny here. It certainly won't be lost. We'll let our blog contributors next steps once they are defined! We'll certainly continue publishing articles.
Basically as long as the equipment is the same it should probably be comparable on all regions, but you can use those numbers and benchmarks to compare them for specific workloads that you have
Agree. The question is if those things will "survive". If you are leaning more towards pessimism one would have to ask "why whould they?" as the other way around there is a lot of money to be made.
Same here. I always was super interested in mathematics and still am. To have this resource to learn about where it all "came from" and how it actually works is great. Will read it on my commute as well!