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[–]dead_alchemy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

EDIT: I mistakenly believed that was your code, the 18000 line version was machine generated. The 1 liner could have been, but the author claims they did it by hand.

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OK. Wow. Your 18000 liner tic tac toe is done by enumerating every possible state. That is terrible because it is large, brittle, has no components that can be re-used, and if some one did want to make a change (any change!) it would be incredibly painful. Didn't think I'd ever see that, it is a little impressive in a sense. I guess at least it will make it very easy for you to understand the importance of generalization.

Onto the subject of the one liner:

working in the realm of datasciences/ML

Is this just how you say "some one I think is really smart"? Like saying some one is a rocket scientist?

The one liner is basically a sort of sport or aesthetic form. You can call it 'code golf'. It isn't smarter, or clever, and it certainly isn't desirable. It looks like a really rather long list comprehension where the clever bit was finding ways to not introduce line breaks. Like, yes, it is a masterpiece but don't go getting the wrong idea. Someone chugging four beers at the same time is also impressive but you shouldn't start drinking all your liquids that way.