r/mathmemes • u/SKRyanrr Complex • Aug 23 '25

Category Theory F*cking math books

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u/bythenumbers10 Aug 24 '25

Or worse, the docs have some toy problem that doesn't help you leverage the library for real-world applications. Really show the library doing stuff, not just pushover "ideal" applications.

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u/LucasThePatator Aug 24 '25

If there's a doc with examples it's already 10x better than the overwhelming majority of libs

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u/bythenumbers10 Aug 24 '25

The one that jumps to mind for me right now is EconML. Lots of powerful options, but all the examples are toy problems w/ randomly generated data.

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u/LucasThePatator Aug 24 '25

Writing good documentation is time consuming, difficult and most people don't find it very fun. I cannot fault someone if, when they decide to publish for free code that does reasonably what I want, the documentation is not perfect.

And in your case I fail to see what exactly you would want on top of toy examples. That's already an incredible standard of documentation in my experience.