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Comment · 1 month ago
All I see from this article and the whole saga is pure sadness. The situation seems unfortunate but seemingly unavoidable.
Comment · 4 years ago
Deep learning based systems are at least trustable as working animals I think... They share a lot of similarities. You can not know how it thinks, but you can train them, observe them, and then trust them to a certain level.
Comment · 4 years ago
No they definitely don't pre-suppose so. They run ads for main revenue, and just think about what is the definition of ads.
Comment · 4 years ago
Comment · 5 years ago
I am quite interested in the difference between people's intuition about things. The more complex a system is, the less I tend to think about it being designed.. It is just too beautiful to be a crafted artifact.
Comment · 5 years ago
This is rather a math-specific operation (type conversion on math operators), not the scope of general purpose language. A lot of dependent typed language can achieve this naturally and most languages with ADT can simulate this.
Comment · 5 years ago
A commercial project aims for profit, not public service. The previous post explains why they are popular demands. And it is natural for commercial project to satisfy popular demands.
Comment · 6 years ago
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Comment · 8 years ago
I was thinking of the exact same thing when writing my new project in Python, and implemented a poor-man's version using typing.NamedTuple. But my idea was mainly from the extensive records from Elm. Although Elm also have Maybe, but the idioms of "making impossible things unrepresentative" eliminates a lot of unwanted usage.
Comment · 8 years ago
Bit of advice to you: I know you what to share your thoughts on this particular package. But this kind of post just looks like an ad and insincere.

(edit) PS: Make sure it is to scale when you enlarge images.

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