this post was submitted on 16 Aug 2023
2 points (100.0% liked)

TechTakes

1750 readers
52 users here now

Big brain tech dude got yet another clueless take over at HackerNews etc? Here's the place to vent. Orange site, VC foolishness, all welcome.

This is not debate club. Unless it’s amusing debate.

For actually-good tech, you want our NotAwfulTech community

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 
top 9 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

he would have been tweeting about how science can't explain the mechanical turk

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

you just transported my brain to a world where the orange site somehow existed before computing and started making prediction market bets on the mechanical Turk revolutionizing Chess

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Ah yes, computer programming, the leader in biological sciences.

It was not on my bingo card today to witness someone attempt to ascribe legitimacy to intelligent design through application of computer programming concepts but here we are.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

It's an old creationist ploy. DNA is like a computer program, which implies there must have been a programmer, yadda yadda, just asking questions, wharblgarbl, brave scientists are speaking up and challenging the Darwinist regime.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

This has to be a joke, right? Somebody demonstrate seriousness on OP’s part before I craft a sneer, please.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Spoken like someone who doesn't know shit about functional genomics

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

my psychic powers tell me he doesn't know shit about programming either

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

But still there are bugs in production 😆

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

The code was written for a specific environment and now we are running it in a totally different environment, so what do you expect...

Besides, the goal of the code is basically to keep the swarm alive, it doesn't really do anything about the health of individual nodes