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Tree-sitter’s parsers already let us efficiently parse the code that our users upload. For instance, the Tree-sitter parser for Python produces a concrete syntax tree (CST)
Introducing Stack Graphs | the GitHub Blog
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Often, people who don’t have access to the raw data expect one narrative to be drawn from data analysis. But the analysts actually in the data know that there are always many, many narratives in the data. Data is often opposite a single narrative. The narratives coming from the data are also never closed or complete, as data continuously arrives. But people want and attach themselves to a single narrative.
Note on Data Opposing Narrative
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When we say, “If you’re going to read one thing about programming, read this,” and the book we recommend talks about the Visitor pattern but not about algorithmic bias, we’re telling people the former is more important than the latter. I no longer believe that’s true; I no longer believe it’s possible to excel at a craft if we exclude how it’s used and abused from our thinking about how we build it.
The Compassionate Programmer
The Third Bit
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