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Re:Why software engineering processes and tools don’t work f... by tachyonbeam on Wednesday October 14, 2020 @06:15PM (#24782313)
I've seen such of the worst throwaway academic garbage code in ML. Maybe the problem is that they completely ignore and look down on software engineering to begin with.
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Re:Why software engineering processes and tools don’t work f... by hinkley on Wednesday October 14, 2020 @07:39PM (#24783042)
The high concept people never appreciate the grief they're causing for the people who have to implement their vision.

The stuff Frank Lloyd Wright didn't know about construction could fill an entire tour. Which I discovered by taking that tour. Boy, did that dude try to ignore physics.

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Re:Why software engineering processes and tools don’t work f... by mhh__ on Thursday October 15, 2020 @12:14AM (#24784869)
It's common across all academia i.e. no engineering textbook is complete without 20 pages of raw, uncommented, single-letter variable-ed MATLAB vomited before the index.

I despise python, but MATLAB is positively satanic by comparison (from a software quality perspective at least)

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