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jedishrfu replied to the thread Documentation of (only) source code.Another point against pseudo code is updates. Often programmers fix a defect and comment about what was wrong and how they fixed it... -
The short answer is "no." I don't know what your coding experience is, but unless one is writing relatively small programs, it can be...
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jedishrfu reacted to FactChecker's post in the thread Documentation of (only) source code with
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Good question. Pseudocode can be as obscure as the real code, so that is not the right way to describe good documentation. There are... -
I've found that when I'm documenting my code, one of the main people I'm writing the documentation for is me. So that when I come back...
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I only write very low-level and compact code, so I leave myself notes addressed like "We need to ...", because I will have forgotten...
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A similar thing happens to me here at PF. After a couple of years, I get a reply notification to a watched thread, and so read back up...
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jedishrfu reacted to FactChecker's post in the thread Documentation of (only) source code with
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I have had occasions where I was looking at someone's old code, trying to figure it out so that I could modify it, drawing all sorts of... -
jedishrfu replied to the thread B Looking for a list of astronomy collaborations.This is a Wikipedia page of astronomy acronyms listing HESS, DESI, GAIA, but not IceCube, ACT, or GRAND. However, IceCube is also...
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jedishrfu replied to the thread RIP Jayant Narlikar (1938-2025).It's sad to learn of another great scientist passing the torch. The Big Bang theorists have won out over Hoyle's and Narlikar's steady...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jayant_Narlikar https://www.nature.com/articles/d44151-025-00092-4 (2021) In conversation with Prof...
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jedishrfu replied to the thread Documentation of (only) source code.At IBM, code attribution was important. At the completion of a major project copyright statements would added as comments and sometimes...
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jedishrfu replied to the thread Documentation of (only) source code.Some projects require a change log in the first comment so you document what you changed. Other projects don’t as the source mgmt tool...
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jedishrfu replied to the thread Reliability of LLM for generating examples in mathematics.And there's a story of how one woman got a letter from the bank apologizing for a bank error caused by the computer. Her daughter, a...
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jedishrfu reacted to martinbn's post in the thread Reliability of LLM for generating examples in mathematics with Haha.
Don't forget the saying. "To err is human. To completely foul things up, you need a computer."
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jedishrfu replied to the thread Reliability of LLM for generating examples in mathematics.Can you provide the prompts you wrote? Sometimes, the prompt needs more detail to get it right.
