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by version_five 1553 days ago
I guess everyone has their go-to sites and their pet peeves. Geeksforgeeks may be less spammy than some, but I still think of it as that annoying site that got in the way of either the SO or documentation answer that I was looking for.

Just to expand, if I want the api reference, say I search for defaultdict (for some reason I like using them but always have to look at the reference), I want the python documentation. I definitely don't want a third party telling me about it.

And if I search a "make list of tensor into tensor" type question, I want SO where someone had asked the same question and got "tensor.stack" as the reply, so I can understand the answer and follow up by looking at the tensor.stack pytorch reference it I want.

Anything else is wasting my time, I think most users with similarly specific queries are not looking for tutorials, they are looking for the names of functions they hypothesize exist, or references. That's why intermediary sites that try to give an explanation are annoying, at least for me.