I've been on r/programming since 2006 or so, and the nature has changed drastically in the past maybe 3-4 years. I think there are a lot of wannabes who hang out there now, as opposed to dyed in the wool nerds. I recently had to go out of my way to tell someone that no, you aren't wrong for saying you generally shouldn't write commentless code, because like 50 people were being nasty to them by unironically saying "Code should be self documenting", as if they read that on a blog post some where but have never written a line of code in their life.
It was an enjoyable and enlightening read. Now I’m thinking how I can rewrite my tile-based path-finding RL project to utilize more Tensors and less for loops.
Well done! I’m looking forward to reading how you concurrently ran 100 million mini snake games.
Really cool. That's how this project got started. I was doing the exact thing you were doing (tile-based RL path finding). But it was soooo slow, so I started implementing it in tensors, and that's when I realized I could do a whole game of Snake.
r/programming isn't exactly a welcoming community. Hackernews is far more professional in my experience, especially with side projects. Puns here are kept to the minimum, and people are generally supportive and constructive
