Mastodawn

Gabriele Svelto [moved]Mar 20, 2024

So I just learned what "The Stack" is today: an aggregation of GitHub repos for machine learning from which I can opt out.

But I won't.

I won't because they scraped some hot garbage I wrote in bash and Python that would make you faint. Bottom-of-the-barrel throw-away scripts full of coding crimes. Stuff like

find | grep | awk | xargs | ugh

...invoked via subprocess.run() then fed into more garbage.

I want "artificial intelligence" to learn this. It's going to be fantastic.

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Bill Zaumen

@gabrielesvelto Instead of Gabriele's "find|grep|awk|..." I once did roughly lex | lex | lex |.... I had used LaTex to write a chapter of a final report. Our manager decided we should use troff (this was 1980s). So, a few days before it was due, I wrote a series of lex programs, each doing part of the conversion & fixing some previous errors until I was left with something good enough that the rest could be easily done by hand.
Very ugly coding but also very practical given its one-time use.