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| Suggested Edit | Post #287932 |
Suggested edit: remove more noise and streamline prose; remove inaccurate terminology that doesn't help explain the situation (more) |
helpful | almost 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #289213 | Initial revision | — | almost 2 years ago |
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A: How to compress columns of dataframe by function Conceptually, applying a function along an axis of a `DataFrame` (i.e., applying it to each row or column) inherently produces a `Series`: a two-dimensional result is collapsed to a one-dimensional result, because one-dimensional "lines" of data are fed into a function that produces a scalar value. ... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #285035 |
FWIW, @#8176, the self-answered question you mention in the other thread is a perfect example of what I advocate for in my answer here. Let's do more of that. A lot more. (more) |
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| Edit | Post #289212 | Initial revision | — | almost 2 years ago |
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A: Questions easily answered by studying a beginner-level book There's still time > This scenario is not yet a problem for this site, but we will get there, since it's a huge problem for Stack Overflow This topic should be separately addressed, too. At time of writing, the main category here has 673 posts (perhaps a few more deleted ones, because I coul... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #289189 |
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| Edit | Post #289189 |
Post edited: add another option |
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| Edit | Post #289189 | Initial revision | — | almost 2 years ago |
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A: Automatically install all packages needed A compromise exists between automatically inferring package names (unreliable and potentially dangerous) and writing out an explicit separate `requirements.txt` file: script-running tools such as `pip-run` may offer the ability to parse requirements declared explicitly within the source file itself, ... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #289043 |
While this idea seems good on the surface, I'm not confident that the SO community will be very happy about it. (more) |
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| Comment | Post #285894 |
When other threads are already expanded and you click "start a new comment thread", you might have to scroll quite some distance to the actual comment submission form. There's a good chance it isn't even on screen at that point, meaning you don't get immediate visual confirmation. The form should app... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #285067 |
Is this still happening for you now, BTW? Or has this answer become outdated? (more) |
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| Edit | Post #289176 | Initial revision | — | almost 2 years ago |
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A: How can we grow this community? Never Too Late Due to, shall we say, recent AI-related hallucinations, pretty much everything that was possible PR-wise in 2019 is possible for this site again. People are leaving Stack Overflow and this is arguably the best existing alternative. Opportunity has knocked again, but in a sense it re... (more) |
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