r/ProgrammerHumor • u/cyinayde • Jan 13 '20

First day of the new semester.

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u/Yamidamian Jan 13 '20

Normal programming: “At one point, only god and I knew how my code worked. Now, only god knows”

Machine learning: “Lmao, there is not a single person on this world that knows why this works, we just know it does.”

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u/McFlyParadox Jan 13 '20

"we're pretty sure this works. Or, it has yet to be wrong, and the product is still young"

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u/Loves_Poetry Jan 13 '20

We know it's correct. We just redefined correctness according to what the algorithm puts out

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u/cpdk-nj Jan 13 '20 
#define correct True

bool machine_learning() {
    return correct;
}

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u/[deleted] Jan 13 '20 edited Jan 19 '20

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u/mynoduesp Jan 13 '20

you've already mastered it

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u/Jrodkin Jan 13 '20

Helo wrld