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Re:Can a Linear Program Do Weight-Space Programming? by laichzeit0 on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @12:10PM (#50455795)
I think the point being missed is that this same tool that can do the 1940s optimization algorithm can also translate Ancient Greek to English, develop a web app and draw a picture of a pelican riding a bicycle. That’s really crazy.
Re:Can a Linear Program Do Weight-Space Programming? by kragen on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @06:34PM (#50460537)
No, the article we are discussing here used a GPU solver implementing the primal-dual hybrid gradient method, which cannot do any of those things. (This is not the same thing as the simplex algorithm from the 01940s. I was wrong about that.) The LLM discussed in the previous work was not in fact able to do that itself. Like a normal person, it wrote a Python program to do it.

While the apparent advent of AGI is indeed really crazy, the point of this article is sort of the opposite.