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Turbocharged Python: AI Accelerates Computing Speed by Thousands of Times (scitechdaily.com)

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Their development Scalene, an open-source tool for dramatically speeding up the programming language Python, circumvents hardware issues limiting computer processing speeds. A team of computer scientists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, led by Emery Berger, recently unveiled a prize-wi

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[–] skilltheamps@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

Going by the screenshots in Github, this is another case of molesting the high-level Python interpreter with low level code riddles. Look at this, are you fucking kidding me?

Importing numpy and then this fucking list comprehension? You need AI telling you that this code is absolute garbage? Well, you're an imbecile then.

And even having the audacity to fuel the Python-is-slow theme with claims like "its 60000 times slower than other languages". You're writing just incredibly stupid code, asshat