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The author makes it sound like a warning label is missing from the C++ tin. Maybe. But what tool should he have used? I haven't seen this code but is there any
by cheerlessbog 6y ago
The author makes it sound like a warning label is missing from the C++ tin. Maybe. But what tool should he have used? I haven't seen this code but is there any doubt it would look just as bad in Java or Python, maybe with fewer segfaults? Or FORTRAN.
- dirtydroog 6y agoI'm genuinely surprised it wasn't an Excel spreadsheet.
- 1_over_n 6y agohttps://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Chicken-Chicken-Chicken-%3A-Chicken-Chicken-Zongker/365e06d677cbf832a6f782aa3db0e49ddbdd1ae2 https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Chicken-Chicken-Chicke...
- DavidHm 6y agoA well executed Excel model is much easier to explain to a non-technical person. To be frank, for all the snobbery towards Excel, it has done a marvelous job at getting millions of people to think in more quantitative ways instead of "business acumen".
- mcv 6y agoI haven't seen the code, but from what I read, it may well have been better to have done this in an Excel spreadsheet. Of course we all would have been just as horrified at that.
- AzzieElbab 6y agoWell, according to some reviews the model did run into problems specific to amateurish use of c/c++. Specifically, it produced different results when running on CPUs with different number of cores and even single core but different CPUs