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

[Philip Durbin]

Right. For anyone who's unfamiliar with that paper:

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-21322183
On Jul 26, 2015 5:16 PM, "Michael Bar-Sinai" <mich.barsinai at icloud.com>
wrote:

> 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.
> On Jul 16, 2015 6:17 PM, "Philip Durbin" <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
>> via http://www.wisdom.weizmann.ac.il/~dharel/papers.html
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 5:11 PM, Michael Bar-Sinai <
>> 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".
>>>
>>> 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."
>>>
>>> http://www.academia.edu/2839009/Can_Programming_Be_Liberated_Period
>>>
>>>
>>> -- Michael
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