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Re:Fifty or Sixty Years of Processor Development for This? by Retra on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @07:51AM (#16753839)
Humans discovered the laws of nature by solving language optimization problems. It's not a coincidence that things must be this way. The solution to every problem will look like it is the solution to an optimization problem, because optimization is how we solve problems.

We basically perceive the world by simulating it. So we're kind of obligated to model the world as a simulation. That doesn't mean it can't be something different underneath, but we won't understand it in any other terms.

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Re:Fifty or Sixty Years of Processor Development for This? by kirubakaran on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @10:23AM (#16754935)
"by solving language optimization problems" <= can you please explain?
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Re:Fifty or Sixty Years of Processor Development for This? by Retra on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @07:07PM (#16760187)
We try to come up with language that accurately describes our experiences and models. Over time that language has come to incorporate a large variety of mathematical notation and physical descriptors that were selected by optimizing for usefulness, completeness, and pedagogical clarity.
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