Is commenting for engagement boost a thing?
This is incredible and I never could have imagined it. This will democratize the power of programming
this post was submitted on 06 Dec 2023
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Comments impact some of the lemmy sorting algorithms such as active.
Active uses the post votes, and latest comment time (limited to two days).
Yeah active is currently the default sort in programming.dev until scaled sort comes out so commenting helps the most out of everything here
Default sort is a profile setting too though so many may have overridden that.
Neat. I don't like that the implementations have to name the function by some cryptic identifier, though. Real words matter in source code.
Who can tell me what this function is?
def Z10096(Z10096K1):
return Z10096K1 == Z10096K1[::-1]
How about this?
def isPalimdrone(myString):
return myString == myString[::-1]Tbf it wasn't so much the names that tripped me as the weird Python operator. I would've never guessed that's a string reversal if you hadn't told me (I don't know much Python beyond recognizing the syntax). If I had to guess I would've said it's an array pop.
When I originally typed it, I made a function for string reversal and called that. But I didn't include it since I didn't want to define that too.
Honestly... this wiki has a seriously difficult path ahead of it. I mean - it'd be fantastic if it did simplify things like that to let you write simple, elegant, and easy to read functions while linking to other functions.
But it'd also have to lint those and make sure that contributors don't implement recursive dependencies.
I thought they were struggling for money?
They are not struggling for money. In fact they have so much money they don’t know what to do with it.
The work is being supported by grants from Google.org, The Rockefeller Foundation, and the Wikimedia Endowment.
Either way they did get some additional funding for this project.
This is fucking cool. I can imagine the many times this could’ve helped me quite a bit, and honestly even if I didn’t find the function I needed I could still probably hack out a decent implementation in whatever language and actually contribute towards this. In 5-10 years, this could be really useful.
It’s to teach AI more properly?
I hope it's going to be used instead of machine learning. Seems much more correct, secure and efficient to me.