Re:Self Healing Code with clojure.spec
by cle on Sunday December 25, 2016 @09:25PM
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Machine learning algorithms do exactly that--they "write" a function that humans couldn't write by hand. What makes you think we couldn't eventually do the same here?
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Re:Self Healing Code with clojure.spec
by catnaroek on Sunday December 25, 2016 @09:37PM
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There's a qualitative difference between tuning parameters that are real numbers (exploring a continuous space with a meaningful notion of “marginally better”) and coming up with code on the fly (exploring a discrete space of syntax trees, which can only be done by enumerating them). Topological considerations can give you an idea of what kinds of things are worth trying.