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Dijkstra On the foolishness of "natural language programming"

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448 points nimbleplum40 | 1 comments | 03 Apr 25 03:30 UTC | HN request time: 0.225s | source
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dr_dshiv ◴[03 Apr 25 07:40 UTC] No.43566183[source]▶
He didn’t understand the concept of the vibe. Here’s the best theory article I’ve read

https://www.glass-bead.org/article/a-theory-of-vibe/

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1. relaxing ◴[03 Apr 25 11:47 UTC] No.43568240[source]▶
What is with the mix of high academia and lowbrow language? Does the author think it’s cute? Covering for something?

> the computations involved in autoencoding… are mathematically intractable

OK, so he doesn’t understand what he’s talking about.

> Peli Grietzer recently finished his PhD in mathematically informed literary theory at Harvard Comparative Literature

How is this a thing.