Awesome mail, Sturla!

On Sat, Dec 12, 2015 at 05:55:35PM +0000, Sturla Molden wrote:
> Artem <barmaley....@gmail.com> wrote:

> > The paper is quite new, and sklearn has a policy
> > <<a
> > href="http://scikit-learn.org/stable/faq.html#can-i-add-this-new-algorithm-that-i-or-someone-else-just-published";>http://scikit-learn.org/stable/faq.html#can-i-add-this-new-algorithm-that-i-or-someone-else-just-published</a>>
> > about introducing new algorithms. I'd say we need more time for others to
> > test it and prove its usefulness.

> In computer science there is a word for "dumping ground for algorithms or
> code that I or someone else just published or found remotely useful":

>     OpenSSL

> And we all know how that ended: An enourmous flying spaghetti monster
> embedded in a big grunch of pragmas and preprocessor macros that the
> maintainers of OpenBSD describes as: 

>     #pragma summon cthulhu

> And thus it died. Or should have been put to sleep.

> Adding all sorts of new stuff is never useful in the long run.


> Sturla


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