Re:The Hardest Program I've Ever Written (2015)
by pmoriarty on Monday August 21, 2017 @04:24PM
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By "user-defined", I meant to refer to the user of the algorithm (AI or not), who is the developer.
You're right that if the algorithm described in the article will always get the same result given the same input it will be deterministic in a way that the kinds of AI methods I'm thinking of (the stochastic kind) will not. That sort of non-determinism will be a problem if you expect your code to be formatted the same way every time it goes through the formatter.
You're right that if the algorithm described in the article will always get the same result given the same input it will be deterministic in a way that the kinds of AI methods I'm thinking of (the stochastic kind) will not. That sort of non-determinism will be a problem if you expect your code to be formatted the same way every time it goes through the formatter.