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I'm not trying to be a jerk here, but screw it. I'm sure whatever it is you've done, I'll probably use at Github at some point. However, from my 10 second scan

I'm not trying to be a jerk here, but screw it. I'm sure whatever it is you've done, I'll probably use at Github at some point. However, from my 10 second scan of the page, I know absolutely NOTHING about what this is or what it can do for me. Is it just me or do I _constantly_ see example of developers making the worst marketers in the world? Where are the code examples or videos showing whatever it is this is and how it will help me. There is nothing on that page but a HUGE image and a bunch of text I can't understand without 4 PHDs and a half a tab of Adderall. It's so frustrating see stories on Hacker News that are just piss poorly explained. You've most likely worked hard at this for a long time, why is it you can't take 5 minutes to explain it in lay man's terms for all to understand? END RANT

lukevp 7y ago
They need Lin Clark[0]'s help. Explaining progress to a non technical audience is a critical skill that many developers lack. 0: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2018/10/webassemblys-post-mvp-future/ https://hacks.mozilla.org/2018/10/webassemblys-post-mvp-futu...
mabrocks 7y ago
This is a release of a dataset, to help people train machine learning models. That's why the blog post says "We’re also releasing a large dataset to help data scientists build models for this task." We also provide a way to evaluate how well your machine learning model works. That's why the blog post says "We’re announcing the CodeSearchNet Challenge evaluation environment." The released data and code (and hence, the announcement) are meant for data scientists and ML researchers who want to work on this problem, and the rest of the world does not need to care. There are no products or applications of this work at this time. If the terms in the blog post don't mean anything to you, then you are not in the target audience for this announcement, and that's OK.

lukevp 7y ago

They need Lin Clark[0]'s help. Explaining progress to a non technical audience is a critical skill that many developers lack. 0: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2018/10/webassemblys-post-mvp-future/ https://hacks.mozilla.org/2018/10/webassemblys-post-mvp-futu...

mabrocks 7y ago

This is a release of a dataset, to help people train machine learning models. That's why the blog post says "We’re also releasing a large dataset to help data scientists build models for this task." We also provide a way to evaluate how well your machine learning model works. That's why the blog post says "We’re announcing the CodeSearchNet Challenge evaluation environment." The released data and code (and hence, the announcement) are meant for data scientists and ML researchers who want to work on this problem, and the rest of the world does not need to care. There are no products or applications of this work at this time. If the terms in the blog post don't mean anything to you, then you are not in the target audience for this announcement, and that's OK.