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Re:First-Class Automatic Differentiation in Swift by 0xfaded on Monday October 22, 2018 @08:25AM (#18274046)
> I desperately want to write my ML code in a statically typed language.

As annoying as it is to see the ML name being hijacked, that has to be one of the funniest inadvertent comments HN has ever produced.

I prefer MG, for Machine Guessing. This not only conveys "The machine has guessed a mapping from x to y", but also captures the research side of "I don't know what the machine is really doing anymore so here are my guesses".

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Re:First-Class Automatic Differentiation in Swift by ThePadawan on Monday October 22, 2018 @10:45AM (#18275037)
You should know that your comment comes across much like...

"I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you’re referring to as ML, is in fact, GNU/ML, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, GNU plus ML..."

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Re:First-Class Automatic Differentiation in Swift by gerdesj on Monday October 22, 2018 @08:51AM (#18274183)
What do you do about any confusion arising from MG also being a long standing abbreviation for Machine Gun?
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Re:First-Class Automatic Differentiation in Swift by AllegedAlec on Monday October 22, 2018 @11:29AM (#18275437)
Or Morris Garages.
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