Epigrams On Programming / quote 22 of 28
Everything is a special case of something more general
In programming, everything we do is a special case of something more general - and often we know it too quickly.
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A Processing program is a sketch
A Processing program is called a sketch. The idea is to make Java-style programming feel more like scripting, and adopt the process of scripting to quickly…
A program can outplay its designer
This victory of machine over man is widely cited, and for good reason. It demonstrates an important lesson: the capabilities of an artificial agent are not…
Introducing Artificial Intelligence (Henry Brighton and Howard Selina) #machine-learning #artificial-intelligence #game #programming
Genghis walks with fifty-one tiny programs
Genghis has no central control. Nowhere in his construction is there a description of how to walk. “The software for Genghis was not organized as a single…
Introducing Artificial Intelligence (Henry Brighton and Howard Selina) #robotics #programming #emergence #software
The holodeck idea
First introduced on 'Star Trek: The Next Generation' in 1987, the holodeck consists of an empty black cube covered in white gridlines upon which a computer…
Hamlet On The Holodeck #computer #Holodeck #machine #programming
All pleasure is, in itself, neither good nor bad. Whence comes the conviction that one should not cause pain in others in order to feel pleasure oneself?
The Inoffensive in Badness.—Badness has not for its object the infliction of pain upon others but simply our own satisfaction as, for instance, in the case of…
Association roles
Each topic that participates in an association plays a role in that association called the association role. In the case of the relationship “Puccini was born…
The Tao Of Topic Maps #association #role #persons #cases #relationship #types