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Re:Deepmind Alphadev: Faster sorting algorithms discovered u... by elcomet on Sunday June 11, 2023 @07:46PM (#36286926)
Can you explain your tastes? Why you prefer an apple to an orange for instance? Not really.

Can you explain how you had the intuition for a certain idea ? No you can explain why it works but not how the intuition came.

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Re:Deepmind Alphadev: Faster sorting algorithms discovered u... by wsdookadr on Tuesday June 13, 2023 @01:09PM (#36313319)
This isn't a question of taste. The topic can't be trivialized to a choice between apples and oranges. I actually reject your entire last message.
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Re:Deepmind Alphadev: Faster sorting algorithms discovered u... by elcomet on Wednesday June 14, 2023 @11:55AM (#36327848)
My point is that most of our actions are intuitive and cannot be explained. maybe this is similar to system 1 vs system 2.
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Re:Deepmind Alphadev: Faster sorting algorithms discovered u... by wsdookadr on Thursday June 15, 2023 @11:54PM (#36350983)
It's fine if you want to refer to Kahneman's classification [1] of instinctual and thorough thinking. Explainability is a separate topic. Also when the amount of energy and compute used are as high as they are.. the results, the return on investment really isn't that high. Hopefully there are better days ahead.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thinking,_Fast_and_Slow

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