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John Hawthorn wrote a nice post discussing a recent tool to incorporate Crystal into your Ruby app. While JH brings an important point, it overlooks certain aspects that are worth consideration. I'll discuss Crystal's real performance and benefits, highlighting why such Ruby/Crystal integration is an indispensable t...

It can autonomously plan and execute thousand-step tasks. It can build and deploy entire software projects all by itself. It can research and fix bugs 7x better than OpenAI's GPT-4, and it trains and deploys its own custom AIs to solve problems.Continue ReadingCategory: TechnologyTags: Artificial Intelligence, Coding, LLM (Large Language Model), Software, Programming

You may have heard of the "The One Billion Row Challenge" (1brc) and in case you don't, go checkout Gunnar Morlings's 1brc repo. I got sucked in because two of my colleagues have entered the competition and are on the leaderboard. PHP is not known for its speed, but as I am working on the PHP profiler I thought I gi...

Monkeying Around With Python: A Guide to Monkey Patching Monkey patching is the practice of modifying live code. This article shows you how its done and why and when to use the practice. KARISHMA SHUKLA

Six Months With GitHub Copilot Richard has been coding with GitHub Copilot over the past six months, and he’s steadily seen it improve his productivity. Learn how it has changed his coding process. RICHARD LI

Specialized Python Libraries for Unique Tasks Python gets used for all sorts of stuff. This list of libraries highlights just how much is out there. Ranging from quick UI tools to text search, to movie editing. MARINE GOSSELIN

I'm going to teach you the basics of Lambda Calculus really quickly. Lambda Calculus is deep. But I'm covering only the fundamentals here. What is Lambda Calculus? Lambda Calculus (LC) is a model to describe computations. LC describes the syntax and semantics. Syntax A lambda expression (also known as lambda term) c...