feat: add stats/base/ndarray/mode

[DivyanshuVortex]

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This pull request adds a new package:

feat: add stats/base/ndarray/mode

The package provides an implementation for computing the mode of a one-dimensional ndarray supporting arbitrary strides, offsets, and negative strides. Includes documentation, benchmarks, examples, test coverage, and REPL help.

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[kgryte]

This isn't how we author stats/base/ndarray/* packages. These packages are intended to wrap strided packages and not inline implementations.

Next, you are making various assumptions which may not be appropriate. E.g., you seem to assume numeric elements. What happens if v is a string matching a prototype method of the object you are using as a hash? Furthermore, how should we be handling signed zeros? Here, you treat them as equal. You also return NaN upon encountering a NaN. Is that appropriate? How do other ecosystems (e.g., Python, Julia, R) handle this scenario? You always return the smallest value. Why is that preferred over the largest value? Lastly, you return only a single mode. What if there are multiple modes?

Answering these questions is precisely why we often request opening RFCs in order to first hash out details before moving to implementation.

[kgryte]

This description isn't correct if the package name is stats/base/ndarray/mode. You need to spend some time understanding package prefix naming conventions.

[kgryte]

Please don't leave these sort of AI comments in the codebase. You are just increasing maintainer overhead in having to clean this cruft up.

[kgryte]

This is an obvious formatting mistake. If you cannot be bothered to go line-by-line reading and cleaning up AI generated code, please don't expect maintainers to bother either. Ditto for the comment at L69.

[DivyanshuVortex]

Hello @kgryte,

Thank you for your honest feedback. You’re absolutely right — the formatting mistakes and leftover AI artifacts in the PR were careless. I apologize for the addded review burden. I should have throughly reviewed and cleaned the changes lineby-line before submitting.

I’m spending more time understanding the codebase and the package nming structure properly, and I will only make a new PR's once the implementation and formatting meet the expected standards.