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| Comment | Post #291310 |
Are you saying that using pointers is just fine and custom iterators are only useful if iteration becomes more complex? (more) |
— | 20 days ago |
| Edit | Post #291310 | Initial revision | — | 21 days ago |
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When to use custom iterators versus pointers I am working on a toy project where I have a container for which I would like to write an iterator that iterates over the values in the container. Because the values are stored in a (c-style) array, this would look something like this: ```c++ class MyClass { int data[10] {}; public: class M... (more) |
— | 21 days ago |
| Edit | Post #289919 | Initial revision | — | 7 months ago |
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A: How to overwrite lines of STDOUT in Python? You can use the carriage return control character `"\r"` to return to the beginning of the line and overwrite text. When using the `print` function you additionally have to make sure not to write the line feed control character (`"\n"`) is not printed. The easiest way to achieve this is probably to... (more) |
— | 7 months ago |
| Edit | Post #289892 | Initial revision | — | 7 months ago |
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A: Regex for simplifying Amazon product URLs The following expression should capture the `{dp|gp}/$ID` part: ```plaintext https://www\.amazon\.com/([gd]p/[A-z0-9]{10}) ``` A quick explanation: - the `\.` are there to match periods only (otherwise it would match any symbol), - `[gd]p` matches either `gp` or `dp`, - `[A-z0-9]{10}` ... (more) |
— | 7 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289700 |
The problem is that it does not really make sense to write an answer about `BitSet` in this general context, since e.g. Python does not really have a data structure like that. This is probably also the reason why I assumed this was a Python and not a Java question.
My point is that by abstracting ... (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289625 |
Roughly speaking, tensorflow-graph is tensorflow-v1 and tensorflow-eager is tensorflow-v2. I don't think these tags would be that useful. Especially since there are generally not that much tensorflow questions thus far. (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289251 |
I definitely agree that showing non-working attempts is generally a good thing. I do feel that the non-working attempts should be conceivable from the standpoint of someone who could have this question, however. I just can't imagine that someone would think about tuples in this kind of scenario. (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289700 |
First of all, I hope it is clear that I did not intend to "attack" your question. I just found the topicality documentation a little ambiguous about this kind of question.
To me, software design/architecture/modelling is one level above the actual algorithm/data structure considerations. On a soft... (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289694 |
I have no problem with the language-agnostic tag. I think my main issue is that this question feels like it originated from Python and was then artificially generalised to cover all languages (or all languages with a data structure for sets that is implemented by a hashtable). In the end, this questi... (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Edit | Post #289694 | Initial revision | — | 8 months ago |
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Are questions about (abstract) algorithms and datastructures considered on-topic? I just noticed this question about data structures in the Q&A. Although algorithms and data structures are often (part of) a solution to a problem when writing software, this question is constructed in a way that aims to leave out the software part entirely. Especially, because I have a strong feel... (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Edit | Post #289693 | Initial revision | — | 8 months ago |
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A: Should self-answered Q&A use separate answers for different techniques/approaches (even if there's a caveat that applies overall)? I believe one of the main strengths of Q&A websites is that they provide a more digestible alternative to dense documentation. Especially for programmers who do not yet know how to find/use the documentation for the language that they are working with. The answer (and even the question [^1]) is/ar... (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289251 |
I agree with @#53398 that this question comes over as too artificial. In the list you linked in the answer to the meta question, you list these top questions. One common aspect of these questions seems to be that they have very short and simple question statements. These questions are popular because... (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289691 |
This question is about datastructures in an abstract sense, which makes this more of a computer science than a programming question in my opinion. Is this really on-topic here? (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Edit | Post #289657 | Initial revision | — | 8 months ago |
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A: Best practices to write functions for both execution modes in Tensorflow, eager and graph mode Tensorflow functions should typically work on both eager and graph tensors. This means that you can just use the following implementation: ```python def lintodb(x: float | tf.Tensor) -> tf.Tensor: """ convert signal to noise ratio (SNR) from linear to dB """ return 10. tf.math.log(x) / ... (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289613 |
Of course! I forgot to execute the JITted function multiple times during my quick testing. Would it be feasible to split your function into different parts so that you could do the benchmarking outside of the JITted code? (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Edit | Post #289633 |
Post edited: add warning about expecting program to exit fast. |
— | 8 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289633 |
1. that depends on what style of programming you wan't to use, but Python typically favours [EAFP](https://docs.python.org/3/glossary.html#term-EAFP)
2. This is indeed an important detail that I forgot to mention (although it is indicated documentation I linked to): this assumes that the clean-up co... (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Edit | Post #289633 | Initial revision | — | 8 months ago |
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A: Listen for key events in a CLI app First of all, the standard keystroke for interrupting a CLI program would be `ctrl + C` or whatever the windows equivalent is. Therefore, you will get the most consistent user experience if you use this standard keystroke for interrupting the program (rather than something custom like space). One... (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289605 |
also, what is wrong with the obvious `ctrl + C` solution? It does not require any code and is pretty standard for people working with the CLI. (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289613 |
Is there any reason why you can't use `time.time()` from the `time` package? (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289625 |
tensorflow functions should work both on eager and graph tensors. I just tried `10. * tf.math.log(x) / tf.math.log(10.)` and it worked in both settings.
Similarly, you could use `tf.cast(x, dtype=tf.int64)` for the casting function (unless there is a specific reason why you would not want graph tens... (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Edit | Post #289503 | Initial revision | — | 9 months ago |
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A: How can I properly type-hint methods in different files that would lead to circular imports? I eventually also found out that the `typing` module has a global variable `TYPECHECKING` that can be used to only import during type-checking. Concretely, the following code for `helpers.py` seems to type-check fine as well. ```python from typing import TYPECHECKING if TYPECHECKING: from ... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Edit | Post #289455 | Initial revision | — | 9 months ago |
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How can I properly type-hint methods in different files that would lead to circular imports? I am writing a Python package where I have two classes in different files that (indirectly) depend on each other. If I wouldn't care about type-hints, there would be no problem, but unfortunately, I do like static type-hinting. Therefore, I need one class for typing the methods of the other and vic... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Edit | Post #289399 | Initial revision | — | 9 months ago |
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A: How to resolve a "ValueError: dimension 't' already exists as a scalar variable" arising when I am using xarray.Dataset.assign_coords()? It seems like what you want to do can be achieved by using ```python data.assigncoords(t=[0.123]) ``` The error message is extremely confusing in this respect, but it seems like the new value for the coordinate must have the same shape as the original coordinate value. In this case, `data.t.sh... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Edit | Post #289339 | Initial revision | — | 9 months ago |
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A: Readable syntax for executing many callables with useful side effects The `map` operation is a typical concept from the functional programming paradigm. However, side-effects are a typical example of something that does not fit functional programming well. As a result, `map` is probably not what you want to use. As an alternative, you can just use the `apply` meth... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Edit | Post #289218 |
Post edited: emphasis use of list |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289229 |
There also exist expressions that perform actions (e.g. the walrus operator `:=` since Python 3.8, or `++i` in C). Would you consider these expressions to be statements as well? (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Edit | Post #289218 |
Post edited: wording |
— | 9 months ago |
| Edit | Post #289218 |
Post edited: wording |
— | 9 months ago |
| Edit | Post #289218 | Initial revision | — | 9 months ago |
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A: How to compress columns of dataframe by function Since `pandas` uses `numpy` for these computations under the hood, I would have suggested to use `df.mean(keepdims=True)`, but apparently this has been explicitly disabled by `pandas`. However, after looking into the docs, I noticed you should be able to get the desired result as follows (note the... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Edit | Post #289162 |
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— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289155 |
Unfortunately, I am not familiar enough with submodules in Git to provide a proper answer, but you should definitely include this information in your question to show what you have tried/done already. (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Edit | Post #289162 | Initial revision | — | 9 months ago |
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A: Should we disallow ChatGPT-User crawler (and others) from scraping Software Codidact? A few thoughts from my side (as a ML researcher, without experience in LLMs): 1. I am not sure if it is really useful to block ChatGPT specifically. ChatGPT is only one of many LLMs out there. Blocking only ChatGPT will probably not prevent the data on codidact from being fed into other mo... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289155 |
According to the [docs](https://git-scm.com/docs/git-pull#Documentation/git-pull.txt---no-recurse-submodulesyeson-demandno), this should be possible using `git pull --recurse-submodules`. Have you tried that? (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289104 |
I indeed overlooked the "join us in chat" link. In my defence, the donate button is the most prominent part and the link above is about advertising leading me to assume this box is about financial stuff... (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Edit | Post #289104 | Initial revision | — | 10 months ago |
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A: How can we grow this community? After a few years of casually using stack-exchange sites and wandering around on coda-dict, I feel there are mainly three components to the quality of the content on each of these sites: 1. the knowledge base 2. the community 3. the game The Knowledge Base I think most answers to this ques... (more) |
— | 10 months ago |