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		mickeyp on Sept 12, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: Why hasn't the deep learning community emb... What I miss about Pascal is its offset indices. You could start an array at 0, 1, 42, or what have you. Useful in rare circumstances!

oivey on Sept 12, 2022 [–]

Julia has this. It’s called OffsetArrays.jl. Ironically, it’s a common source of bugs because library authors don’t always anticipate them and loop over 1:length(A) rather than eachindex(A).

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