[codecraft] Weekend Reading: Can Programming Be Liberated, Period

[Michael Bar-Sinai]

True. And don't release a learning algorithm to interact with racial society (e.g. Latanya's Google Ads paper).


> On Jul 27, 2015, at 00:13, Philip Durbin <philipdurbin at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> "Whenever we feel as if we have given the system enough instructions and guidelines, we set it free to start behaving."
> 
> Just don't give it enormous guns when you're doing a demo like in Robocop.
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> On Jul 16, 2015 6:17 PM, "Philip Durbin" <philipdurbin at gmail.com <mailto:philipdurbin at gmail.com>> wrote:
> Cool, I'll try to check it out. I also found a PDF version that doesn't require signup to download at http://www.wisdom.weizmann.ac.il/~dharel/papers/LiberatingProgramming.pdf <http://www.wisdom.weizmann.ac.il/~dharel/papers/LiberatingProgramming.pdf> via http://www.wisdom.weizmann.ac.il/~dharel/papers.html <http://www.wisdom.weizmann.ac.il/~dharel/papers.html>
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> On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 5:11 PM, Michael Bar-Sinai <mich.barsinai at icloud.com <mailto:mich.barsinai at icloud.com>> wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> Here's a 2008 classic about programming in general. There were a few "Can Programming be Liberated from XXX" papers, really asking what are the things the bind programming so much that we don't even notice them. David Harel (proper disclosure: he's on my PhD committee) looks into what it would take to librate programming not just from various XXXs, but completely, and defines the "three straitjackets of programming".
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> Plus, in today's world of over-opinionated flamewar hyperboles, you've got to like a paper stating that "the message here is deintely “maybe we should be thinking about thhs some more,” not “if you just do it my way you’ll be fine."
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> http://www.academia.edu/2839009/Can_Programming_Be_Liberated_Period <http://www.academia.edu/2839009/Can_Programming_Be_Liberated_Period>
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> 
> -- Michael
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