23 Feb
2011
23 Feb
'11
8:09 p.m.
On 2/23/11 4:55 PM, Max Bolingbroke wrote:
3) A surprise to me: generating fresh names! People keep a set of all names generated so far, and then just take size+1 as their fresh name. Nice trick. ~17 occurrences
This is a really common trick in NLP circles. Of course, it's easy to build a datastructure of your own which caches the size, rather than having the underlying datastructure do it. Speaking of which, I should put my package for that up on Hackage... -- Live well, ~wren