Name: Anonymous 2013-08-06 0:56
So apparently the bastards at MIT figured out how to make a program that can write programs.
http://web.mit.edu/remy/
Remy creates end-to-end congestion-control algorithms that plug into the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP). These computer-generated algorithms can achieve higher performance and greater fairness than the most sophisticated human-designed schemes.
So basically, humans aren't needed for anything except configuring Remy. How many people could that possibly take? 30, maybe 40? The rest will be relegated to designing new styles of rounded corners -- oh wait, I'm sure their working on finding the most aesthetically pleasing curvature in the psychology department, so we won't even be able to do that.
Also, Remy is apparently so good that her code can't be understood by some of the top computer scientists in the world:
Why do the computer-generated algorithms get these results?
We don't know for sure. Remy's algorithms have more than 150 rules, and will need to be reverse-engineered to figure out how and why they work. We suspect that there is considerable benefit to being able to combine window-based congestion control with pacing where appropriate, but we'll have to trace through these things as they execute to really understand why they work.
Conjuring the spirits of the computer with our spells indeed. They've invented magic and destroyed programming in the process.
Well, I'd love to stay and chat, but I've got to go apply for admission into a graduate programming in Toilet Scrubbing. Hopefully the wages are low enough that they won't bother replacing that with robots any time soon.
http://web.mit.edu/remy/
Remy creates end-to-end congestion-control algorithms that plug into the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP). These computer-generated algorithms can achieve higher performance and greater fairness than the most sophisticated human-designed schemes.
So basically, humans aren't needed for anything except configuring Remy. How many people could that possibly take? 30, maybe 40? The rest will be relegated to designing new styles of rounded corners -- oh wait, I'm sure their working on finding the most aesthetically pleasing curvature in the psychology department, so we won't even be able to do that.
Also, Remy is apparently so good that her code can't be understood by some of the top computer scientists in the world:
Why do the computer-generated algorithms get these results?
We don't know for sure. Remy's algorithms have more than 150 rules, and will need to be reverse-engineered to figure out how and why they work. We suspect that there is considerable benefit to being able to combine window-based congestion control with pacing where appropriate, but we'll have to trace through these things as they execute to really understand why they work.
Conjuring the spirits of the computer with our spells indeed. They've invented magic and destroyed programming in the process.
Well, I'd love to stay and chat, but I've got to go apply for admission into a graduate programming in Toilet Scrubbing. Hopefully the wages are low enough that they won't bother replacing that with robots any time soon.