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Re:A Code Glitch May Have Caused Errors in More Than a Hundr... by Aperocky on Saturday October 12, 2019 @07:19PM (#21237028)
Parameter tuning is prevasive, but I guess I went too far to suggest that it's a code change.
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Re:A Code Glitch May Have Caused Errors in More Than a Hundr... by haihaibye on Sunday October 13, 2019 @01:46AM (#21238591)
Another common trick is to tune your program to a dataset then run all of the other programs with default parameters.

Bam, you've got a benchmark where you're fastest, just like everyone else.

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