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While we know that Lua does a great job when we want to use it as an embedded language, it can also exceed its basic uses and can be used in extreme cases such as Machine Learning and statistical analysis.There are many scientific libraries that are present in the market for this particular case of making more out of Lua. Let’s explore what these libraries are and what they do.The first name that comes to my mind when talking about Lua and machine learning in the same sentence is of the Torch project. The torch project is a scientific computing ... Read More

When we want to return a table as a result from multiple values passed into a function, then we make use of the table.pack() function. The table.pack() function is a variadic function.Syntaxtable.pack(x, y, z, ....)ExampleThe table.pack() function provides a table formed with all the values that are passed to it as an argument, consider the example shown below − Live Demoa = table.pack(1, 2, 3) print(a) print(a.n)In the above example, we passed three numbers to the table.pack() function as an argument and then we are printing the returned value, i.e., which will hold the address of the table that contains the ... Read More