Chapter 157: Second Monday (2)
"Too soon?" Jack asked with a smile.
He could tell that she was not unhappy with his touch, just that it was unexpected and she wasn’t mentally prepared for that level of intimacy.
She nodded, then jumped down from his arms and hugged him.
There was also a sense of anticipation over her connection, so he was fairly certain that she wanted to explore more intimate contact with him. She just hadn’t worked up to it yet.
After a moment, she grabbed his hand and dragged him around the desk to her side, then pointed at a screen.
"Look, just look at this!" she enthused.
Rina looked like she was about to launch into a dissertation, so Nora chimed in, "It shows how many tests we’ve run and how much of the problem space we’ve covered so far."
"Tests?"
"Yes," said Nora. "Rina, and I designed a program to search for useful nano-structures by automatically generating test simulations and analyzing the results. If we ran these simulations on a Cerebras, we could do maybe one simulation every two to three hours."
"But Jeeves and I worked out a file format," enthused Rina. "Now we can run hundreds of tests per hour."
"I had originally planned to carefully examine the result of each test so I could guide the search program towards more promising areas of the search space, but now we can just brute it. The search program has only been running for an hour, and we’ve already discovered a few pieces of what I believe will make a superior gene editor."
Nora was trying not to grin like a maniac, but he could tell she was extremely excited about the progress she was making.