Rust speed up 16000 times! (Advent of Code)

the challenge, from Advent of Code 2022

Advent of Code is an Advent calendar of small programming puzzles for a variety of skill levels that can be solved in any programming language you like. People use them as interview prep, company training, university coursework, practice problems, a speed contest, or to challenge each other.

Day 6 - Advent of Code 2022

How to Solve Advent of Code 2022 Using Postgres... | Crunchy Data Blog

"find  position of a string characters in a specific long string"

This Algorithm is 1,606,240% FASTER - YouTube

code: aoc/src/bin/day6_2.rs at 2022 · ThePrimeagen/aoc

the interview with this video's author

The engineering behind Netflix | ThePrimeagen and Lex Fridman - YouTube

AI IQ? Gemini 2.5 Pro

Gemini 2.5 Pro is a coding GENIUS - YouTube

IQ 130?

on my tests was NOT so bright across the board, more like specialized "genius" that frequently gets "stuck" and could not move on... promising and frustrating... 

chess code: Sunfish_rs: Rust vs Python

"ELO" is a measure of "chess mastery" 

On that score, this very compact Python chess program is already better than most of human players.

Porting it to Rust language made it even stronger. And longer, in lines of code :)

thomasahle/sunfish: Sunfish: a Python Chess Engine in 111 lines of code @GitHub

Sunfish is a simple, but strong chess engine, written in Python. With its simple UCI interface, and removing comments and whitespace, it takes up just 131 lines of code! (build/clean.sh sunfish.py | wc -l). Yet it plays at ratings above 2000 at Lichess.

Finally you can play sunfish now on Lichess or play against Recursing's Rust port, also on Lichess, which is about 100 ELO stronger.

Recursing/sunfish_rs: Rust rewrite of the sunfish simple chess engine @GitHub

OpenAI <= $40B <= SoftBank

not an April's fool's joke?

SoftBank is known for risky investments... 

OpenAI Hits $300B Valuation After $40B SoftBank Investment

"The funding is structured in stages with major conditions attached. SoftBank and its syndicate are injecting an initial $10 billion now, and another $30 billion is slated for late 2025 — but only if OpenAI completes a governance overhaul. Specifically, OpenAI must transition from its current non-profit-controlled, capped-profit model to a conventional for-profit structure by the end of 2025. If it fails to meet this deadline, SoftBank can scale back the remaining investment by up to 25%."

Sam Altman Says OpenAI Will Release an ‘Open Weight’ AI Model This Summer | WIRED

OpenAI adopts rival Anthropic's standard for connecting AI models to data | TechCrunch

AI Code tools: Augment Code vs Cursor AI

AI Coding Assistant Showdown: Augment Code vs Cursor AI (Which is Better?) - YouTube


Augment Code – Developer AI for real work

"The first AI coding assistant built for professional software engineers and large codebases."



Cursor - The AI Code Editor

"Built to make you extraordinarily productive,Cursor is the best way to code with AI."

Augment Code raises $227 Million to empower software teams with AI