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Not necessarily. In this case the business seeks an alternative to workers such automation or simply going without.


No need to imagine. That would just be Declarative Programming going mainstream?

Its just that algorithms like the Prolog’s WAM or the reet used in rules are replaced with neural nets and the like.

Rules use the same When Then format acting on a Given fact base. Prologs Horn Clauses can easily be translated into that form.

BDD writes all tests in the format Given When Then.

It’s already here.


I want to read the follow up article where the challenge is to create a typesetted document. Bentleys criticism includes a single like Shell script invoking Latex.


Take a look at the code. He makes use of both Gotos and global variables.

See paragraphs 5 & 7.

He would have been rejected as a job applicant immediately as soon as the paragraphs were read.


We have brainwashed ourselves with dogmatic theory. I see nothing wrong with the code. This code is not for business production. It works well for what it is. Un-brainwash yourself! It's great that Knuth doesn't have to apply for a job and go through the gauntlet because that would make Knuth un-Knuth!


Is the generator still being trained based on current comments?

If so, how long will it be before it starts generating comments that include feeding the title init itself?


This is a feature not a bug.

If one of the words is slightly wrong, then you want it to be obvious.

If the Kentucky emergency operator adds an extra s they will see that it can’t be right. With the contiguous numbering the ambulance would be close, but probably still unable to find you.

See page 23 of the patent: https://patentscope.wipo.int/search/docs2/pct/WO2014170646/p...


OK. But you need the W3W API to do that. Just by looking at two identifiers, without that, you'd have no clue about where they are.


But they won’t find Musk when watching Iron Man or Avengers.

To find him in film they have to watch the Greatest Showman.


They'll find Musk in Iron Man 2


Is it possible that value can be generated without a financial transaction?


The reason is explained in the front matter: “On one level, the data is simply a part of a mundane programming book. On another, each row represents immense suffering, lives lost, and in some cases amazing redemption and acceptance. In preparing for this dataset, I was deeply moved by a number of the statements and found myself re-evaluting my position on capital punishment. I hope that as we examine the data, you too will contemplate the deeper issues at play.”


Erik may know SQL but there’s an entire generation of developers who don’t.

These developers find it easier to dip into shallow DSLs instead of learning the depths of SQL.


If they can be developers, they can learn SQL. Apart from DDL statements, it's literally 3 DML statements, of which most of the clauses operate exactly the same way across all 3 statements.


Sorry, that should be 4 DML statements...


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