The Compute Revolution You’re Ignoring: JavaScript in Science

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Claim: modern JavaScript plus stdlib runs real scientific workloads inside the browser, cutting latency and installs. Evidence: three implementations of an image inversion—client/server, Pyodide (numpy + scikit‑image), and native JS with stdlib—run 10 iterations at 21 ms vs 121.7 ms vs >4s; Pyodide also needs Pyodide 2–5s load. Working demos include multilingual translation, semantic image search, background removal, OCR with tesseract.js, and toxicity detection via on‑device models.

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1. 0:00JavaScript in science intro
2. 2:07Three eras of computing platforms
3. 8:15Browser era for science
4. 10:06Performance comparison
5. 17:42Advantages of web computing
6. 19:48Five JS demos
7. 25:53Building JS science ecosystem
8. 31:35Standard Lib library
9. 35:27Future of web science
10. 38:43Closing & community

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