"Hacking" these days - purpose?
Donald Eastlake
d3e3e3 at gmail.com
Wed Dec 16 04:26:14 UTC 2020
On Mon, Dec 14, 2020 at 12:10 PM Miles Fidelman <mfidelman at meetinghouse.net>
wrote:
> David Bass wrote:
> > It becomes more clear when you think about the options out there, and
> > get a little creative. Now a days it’s definitely chess that’s being
> > played.
> And here I thought the purpose of hacking is (still) having fun - you
> know... hacking.
>
> As to chess... I've begun to think that the game to master is now Go...
> capturing territory, not pieces, and instantaneous global state changes.
https://fortune.com/2016/03/12/googles-go-computer-vs-human
Donald
d3e3e3 at gmail.com
Miles Fidelman
>
> --
> In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.
> In practice, there is. .... Yogi Berra
>
> Theory is when you know everything but nothing works.
> Practice is when everything works but no one knows why.
> In our lab, theory and practice are combined:
> nothing works and no one knows why. ... unknown
>
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