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Re:Nbdev: A literate programming environment that democratiz... by evanrich on Friday November 20, 2020 @08:52PM (#25167274)
I fully agree here. I am working through Deep Learning for Coders now. I have created several errors as I am implementing chapters, but the coding style of fastai makes in impenetrable to debug. It’s an incredible book and a great library when its working as expected, but the number of times i have run into some variant of `method takes N parameters but M were given` is pretty frustrating. Looking through the stack, these are not patterns that would have been accepted in a code review from me for the same reason you mentioned. Making small changes and debugging are both hampered by the style.

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