@whitequark (reads https://social.treehouse.systems/@whitequark/116283070331505039) oh no did I just explain something you thought obvious back to you
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i'm at a loss of words after reading a paper about reformatting code using an ML model that has a measured statistical quantity A_c which says how often the reformatted code behaves the same as the original -
i'm at a loss of words after reading a paper about reformatting code using an ML model that has a measured statistical quantity A_c which says how often the reformatted code behaves the same as the original@whitequark I do think that asking for 100.0% equivalency is something that's both necessary to ask of something you'd want to put in a CI _and_ unreasonable to ask of something that tries to solve this problem
having accidentally gone through this specific kind of exercise a few times in the last couple weeks — turning java code into kotlin code intellij would spit into kotlin code I'd be happy to put my name on — I usually reach maybe 98% compatibility, then settle for that because I identify the remaining 2% of behaviours as "hard to replicate in the new shape of the code," "minor enough not to matter" and "not desirable, actually"
once you're happy to aim somewhere south than 100.0% I guess it's interesting to figure out how close you can get — and then yeah this approach only gets you to 64% which is only good as a milestone for future efforts to compare against
️maybe all this ends up being good for is dropping comments on PRs (and, if you recognize me, we both know how we feel about that)
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Here’s the thing you need to know about people who transitioned as adults: their transition is probably a truly epic saga.@Willow the only "epic saga" at this time is the one my parents say they have to embark upon before they can stop misgendering me
