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

[Zakariyya Mughal]

On 2015-07-30 at 21:34:58 -0400, Philip Durbin wrote:
> 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).
> >

And a very nicely written article on a similar topic:

Elkus, Adam. "Don’t Blame Algorithms for the Cruelties of Bureaucracy".
<http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2015/05/algorithms_aren_t_responsible_for_the_cruelties_of_bureaucracy.single.html>

Cheers,
- zaki

> >
> > 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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