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Re:Stochastic gradient descent written in SQL by naasking on Tuesday March 07, 2023 @01:23PM (#35059013)
You cannot abstract over stored procedures either, so that's still not composable.
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Re:Stochastic gradient descent written in SQL by dventimi on Tuesday March 07, 2023 @01:49PM (#35059390)
No idea what this means
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Re:Stochastic gradient descent written in SQL by naasking on Tuesday March 07, 2023 @04:15PM (#35061338)
Think of first-class functions. Can't do that with stored procedures, just like you can't do that with queries or tables in SQL.
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