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Re:The State of Machine Learning Frameworks by machinelearning on Thursday October 10, 2019 @01:48PM (#21217328)
Are you saying tensorflow doesn't have more code to check in or that even bad engineers don't pretend that checking in more code looks productive?
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Re:The State of Machine Learning Frameworks by mlthoughts2018 on Thursday October 10, 2019 @01:52PM (#21217367)
Not even bad engineers pretend like more code == more productive. Emphatically so.
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Re:The State of Machine Learning Frameworks by machinelearning on Thursday October 10, 2019 @02:50PM (#21217907)
Well, the worst engineers don't push any code so maybe it looks like they don't think writing more code is productive.

However its been my experience that the average engineer believes this. They often aim to push some amount of code (meaningful or not) every few days or so.

The best engineers I know write a lot of code overall but are more interested in ensuring they build the right thing and are ok with not pushing code for a while if they need more time.

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Re:The State of Machine Learning Frameworks by rytill on Friday October 11, 2019 @03:17AM (#21222237)
Bad engineers have pretended like more code is more productive. Certain programmer-types will grasp at any straws to maintain their ego.
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