Notices by Krzysztof Sakrejda (wronglang@bayes.club)

I love this definition of a programming language from @inthehands

"HTML is a way for humans to express their ideas and their intentions in a form that is unambiguously interpreted by a machine. We express our ideas, then turn them loose. The machine's interpretation may diverge from our human understanding; when it does, our ideas talk back to us and they •surprise• us.

If that’s not programming, I don’t know what is."

https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/113671358312102577

relevance to #rstats #statistics + lang wars

@cwebber @wordshaper I'm much closer to an expert on this topic and your summary gets my stamp of approval (for what that's worth).

@inthehands I have gone through the exercise of trying to talk the chatgpt instance the university of Michigan makes available to its staff into terrible ethical positions and I gotta say it performed better (on, e.g.-Palestine) than a lot of the discourse in the mainstream news media so maybe there's some value to having a machine that produces average text... at least in the context of.. whatever we're experiencing right now...

@inthehands the definition of AI is disappointingly thin these days

@inthehands

no one in particular: ...
me: I could argue HTML is also #AI, we just ask it to lay out documents using simple phrases and through the magic of parameters learned from decades of design experience the HTML interpreter presents a nicely optimized presentation. It's basically magic!

@_elena that's a really aggressive open source nerdery schedule!

@rysiek wow, there are a lot of tankies in here!