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Welcome to Wikifunctions
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#82Wow... Would this collection be helpful as a free and curated source of coding blocks to train future LLMs on?
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#83The documentation doesn't quite match the ambition of the project which may complicate the onboarding of new contributions Some suggestions for immediate questions that people might want to see on a landing page: * How does the function collection relate to existing function libraries in various programming languages * What are the target domain and range of the function set, i.e., what is the overall scope of the pr…
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#84I keep the cynicism inside me in check usually, but these days finding it harder to do. So people contribute to this and then what? Google/MS/OpenAI etc train models on the data and try to sell it back to us?
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#85I was about to say I stopped reading at: > the creation of new development environments or programming languages or paradigms will become easier, as they could simply refer to Wikilambda for a vast library of functions. ... except morbid curiosity compelled me to the end.
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#86What is everyone's favorite function / formula? Mine is n/(n+x) It has a bunch of interesting aspects: As n gets bigger, it goes from 0 to 1. When n equals x, it is 0.5 As n gets bigger, the difference between n and n+1 gets smaller For two sufficiently large n's, the results are equal. Say somebody told you about a new cafe in town and that it is completely awesome. The best cafe ever. What probability do you assign…
This reminds me of a simple algorithm to determine which product to choose if all have similar ratings but varying number of votes - add one positive and one negative review and recalculate.
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#87What is everyone's favorite function / formula? Mine is n/(n+x) It has a bunch of interesting aspects: As n gets bigger, it goes from 0 to 1. When n equals x, it is 0.5 As n gets bigger, the difference between n and n+1 gets smaller For two sufficiently large n's, the results are equal. Say somebody told you about a new cafe in town and that it is completely awesome. The best cafe ever. What probability do you assign…
I would view this as Laplace smoothing or Additive smoothing for binary distributions (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Additive_smoothing). I use it all the time when I'm working estimating rates of some events from a limited amount of samples.
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#88Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah, you're not the only one to think that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2...
Wow. This feels like someone has taken a Borges parody and ran with it: > What is the scope of the new "Wikipedia of functions"? > [...] Vrandečić explained the concept of Abstract Wikipedia and a "wiki for functions" using an example describing political happenings involving San Francisco mayor London Breed: > "Instead of saying "in order to deny her the advantage of the incumbent, the board votes in January 2018 to…
Feels a lot like RDF, especially in terms of how I expect the underlying utopian dream to play out.
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#89What is everyone's favorite function / formula? Mine is n/(n+x) It has a bunch of interesting aspects: As n gets bigger, it goes from 0 to 1. When n equals x, it is 0.5 As n gets bigger, the difference between n and n+1 gets smaller For two sufficiently large n's, the results are equal. Say somebody told you about a new cafe in town and that it is completely awesome. The best cafe ever. What probability do you assign…
Initially thought this project was about formulas.
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#90These look like they are all builtins. I’m really not sure what is meant by “decolonising functions”, it seems to take inspiration from a professor who allowed his class to speak and discuss mathematics in Spanish (admirable!)… but this is a website!
I can’t even tell if there is a documentation area.
Perhaps this may get better over time?