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parsing this single sentence would constitute passing an EFL exam in my book
by 867-5309 7y ago
parsing this single sentence would constitute passing an EFL exam in my book
- elliekelly 7y agoPerhaps the most valuable writing advice I've ever received: “When you think one sentence needs 35+ words what you really need is two sentences.”
- gigatexal 7y agoYes, yes, I tend to ramble.
- 867-5309 7y agoit wasn't meant as a dig - it seems perfectly valid and a good example of how much can actually be written in one sentence
- carapace 7y ago> Perhaps it could be this: if my value comes from running some crazy interesting high-level Math-derived ML model on data, and I’m highly paid, then the opportunity cost of becoming good at C++ is higher than if I can do the same thing in a few lines of python and just throw some more compute at the problem, since that’s a fixed cost. Add some hyphens and commas and shed a bit of cruft, and it's fine IMO. (I hope you don't mind my speculative editing.)
- gigatexal 7y agoI appreciate the feedback. Defending wordy stream-of-consciousness writing style is not a hill I want to die on. I did realize that if I have to throw a million cores at something vs. 1000 perhaps it would make sense to spend the effort or buy the time from an expert in C++ so as to save on the compute cost. But then, what if those million cores are only needed for a a day or an hour? Then python or some other rapid prototyping language would make a bit more sense imo.
- carapace 7y agoCheers!
- 867-5309 7y agothere was no need for that, see my response 3 hours prior