Was doing some data analysis in a jupyter notebook yesterday. I spent better part of 2010s writing python by hand, I thought, so I will do this one without AI
I did but man was it a pain. I definitely don't miss having to remember numpy, matplotlib and tensorflow interfaces
A famous CA university reached out to me with RFQ for scientific reproduction with LLMs. First estimation for a pilot was $140k and a quarter of work. After meeting with dri it turned out they *need* much less than they thought and pilot can be done in few weeks time.
Today we heard back and we won the bid. Yay!
Reimplemented data processing pipeline from Rust to Bun and see 30% performance boost
Actual processing happens in WebAssembly and original Rust implementation traverses files and manages multi threading and memory for WASM virtual machines
Bun must be doing good job with js-wasm intercom
Microsoft admits Windows file explorer is too slow.
after much deliberation and engineering,
decision was made to preload the window so it opens faster when user actually opens it.
ouch.
