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Re:Software engineering may no longer be a lifetime career by coldtea on Monday May 11, 2026 @01:48PM (#48098193)
>but not all of it, because it is actually a statistical machine with context limit.

And the human mind is not?

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Re:Software engineering may no longer be a lifetime career by KalMann on Monday May 11, 2026 @03:25PM (#48099524)
I can give you the exact mathematical formula used to statistically optimize the output of a neural network from input examples. Can you do the same for the brain?
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Re:Software engineering may no longer be a lifetime career by coldtea on Tuesday May 12, 2026 @08:34AM (#48107352)
Not atm, but does it matter?

Is it similar, even if much simpler, of the sort of process that goes on there too? That's the important question.

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Re:Software engineering may no longer be a lifetime career by nothinkjustai on Monday May 11, 2026 @01:55PM (#48098297)
It’s not.
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