How Jose and I Worked on a Book With a Functional Language

The day the book was published, I ended up getting an email from Brian Carter Litt Dockyard, asking me if I was interested in working on machine learning an ecosystem. So he got me in touch with Jose and then we went back and forth on trying to figure out what a good approach to solving the problem was. And early on like some of our initial challenges were trying to get like XLA factually build a beam. Then we finally kind of, you know, I think we got over the hump a little bit with some of this stuffI don't think initially we thought it was going to be as successful as it was. But now I guess two years later, we have