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“Self-Healing” Programs That Fix Themselves Thanks to AI
Wolverine is a Python tool that responds to script crashes by using ChatGPT to look for solutions. This brief article describes the process and links to a video demo. With the corresponding Slashdot Discussion.
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Pandas 2.0 vs Pandas 1: Performance Comparison
Pandas 2.0 was recently released with the new pyarrow backend. In the article, we did a quick performance comparison between the new pyarrow backend in 2.0 with the standard in Pandas 1. The results were expected, a big speedup in terms of String processing and null value handling, but slower with numeric processing and aggregations.
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Tuesday, April 11, 2023

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