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It's weird how people neg on some abstractions for Python but then brag about the absolutely intense degree of abstraction something like Tensorflow brings to t

• ThrustVectoring 9y ago
  There's a huge difference between abstraction you have to write and debug yourself, and abstraction that you can use and debug through documentation and StackOverflow. Third-party resources are where it's at for taking advantage of things that require skills you don't have. I haven't written enough frameworks and abstract libraries to expertly debug, test, and write my own.
  • KirinDave 9y ago
    > There's a huge difference between abstraction you have to write and debug yourself, and abstraction that you can use and debug through documentation and StackOverflow. Indeed. You're more likely to be able to use and debug it if you wrote it yourself rather than relying on the weirdom of the crowd from SO. > I haven't written enough frameworks and abstract libraries to expertly debug, test, and write my own. I suspect you'd do just fine if you tried, assuming you don't try and displace django.
• empthought 9y ago
  There is a material difference between syntactic abstraction and functional abstraction. It's analogous to the difference between someone learning to program a computer and someone learning to use a computer. The second is far easier to do and requires far less intellectual overhead. By the same token, if someone implements TensorFlow in a different language, there is little room for complaint assuming the same functional abstraction (and minimization of intellectual overhead) is present in that language's implementation.