Re:OCaml's Wings for Machine Learning
by TJSomething on Wednesday April 30, 2025 @01:44PM
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My issue with REPLs is that they're often too transient. Sometimes I make a mistake on step 2 that I realize while iterating on step 10 of exploring some data. Then I need to iterate on step 2 a little, taking advantage of the ability to easily just run some of the calculations. Once I've got that, I can run the whole notebook again and make sure all my intermediate graphs look good.
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Re:OCaml's Wings for Machine Learning
by arbitrandomuser on Thursday May 01, 2025 @12:03AM
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The alternative is not programming purely in the repl but to have an editor where you type out your code and from where you can send bits of text to the repl to run and get feedback. All major editors have plugins to do this.