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I plan to train an NLP bot from Hacker News 1-based indexing discussions to automatically generate the mandatory thread on it so that nobody ever has to partici
by ChrisRackauckas 5y ago
I plan to train an NLP bot from Hacker News 1-based indexing discussions to automatically generate the mandatory thread on it so that nobody ever has to participate in it again. It's so unoriginal that it's a better fit for ML automation than a human brain.
- leephillips 5y agoAlso these comments just tell us about the background of the commenter, and nothing else. Anyone who has had to translate numerical or scientific algorithms into both C and pre-array syntax Fortran finds Fortran’s 1-based indexing to be a more natural fit, I would suspect.
- BeetleB 5y ago> Also these comments just tell us about the background of the commenter, and nothing else I was about to say something similar, but the last time I did, people got upset ;-) That and people complaining about certain characters being allowed in variable names in some languages (e.g. hyphen, question mark, etc).