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		IncRnd on June 30, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: GitHub Copilot Some people say "goin der" instead of "going there", that doesn't change the definitions of words, just because people are lazy with their language.

bidirectional on June 30, 2021 | [–]

I fail to see your point. Floats are best practice for many financial applications, where model error already eclipses floating point error and performance matters.

ExtraE on June 30, 2021 | [–]

Your point in the floating-point discussion is true, but you’re wrong about this one- linguistics is a descriptive field, not a prescriptive one.

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