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Hello, paper co-author here. QueryBrew is based on our research relational database Umbra (https://umbra-db.com/) which has been in development since around 2018. Our optimizer needs to produce correct plans within milliseconds while considering thousands to millions of alternatives, so using machine learning based approaches is often not a great fit. We instead rely on purpose-built algorithms like query decorrelation (https://15799.courses.cs.cmu.edu/spring2025/papers/11-unnest...) and DP based join ordering (https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3183713.3183733). We have used AI for fuzzing input queries to test the optimizer.
Re:Why I wrote a SQL engine in (only) Python on Friday December 30, 2022 @04:57PM (#34190582)
Re:NoJS – Creating a calculator with only HTML and CSS on Friday January 21, 2022 @06:38PM (#30031409)
Multiplying the 32bit floats 99999.0f and 9999.0f results in 999889984 (Firefox's result). So I guess this hints at what Firefox might be doing :)

Float multiplication's result: https://godbolt.org/z/q857f51GP

Re:NoJS – Creating a calculator with only HTML and CSS on Friday January 21, 2022 @06:29PM (#30031322)
For 99999 x 9999:

Firefox 96 displays 999889984

Edge 97 displays 999890001

The answer should be 999890001, so Edge is right and Firefox is wrong