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Re:Open source deep learning models that programmers can dow... by Houshalter on Saturday June 17, 2017 @01:45PM (#14576856)
It's not necessarily the conciseness that's a problem. Using foreach instead of a full for loop is one thing. What I'm complaining about is code in place of an explanation. E.g. imagine coming across some nasty piece of code like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_inverse_square_root#Overv...

It doesn't matter how familiar you are with the language. Without an explanation of what the hell is going on, just looking at the code is useless.

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Re:Open source deep learning models that programmers can dow... by davedx on Sunday June 18, 2017 @12:42PM (#14581482)
Now we're talking about documentation. You are correct, no code is conpletely self documenting. But that Quake code is very low level, the opposite of what I think the grandparent doesn't like (very high level abstract notation)
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