Disambiguation: Ai 合, "Harmony" in Japanese
Artificial Intelligence = AI
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https://chatgpt.com/
A website that provides an artificial intelligence chat interface. Capable of assisting research, writing, and programming.
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GitHub is, as of this writing, a renown Git hosting service.
They're introducing community guidelines..
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It was Aug 2009 when I wrote I've put in my 10,000 hours. Rather than updating that post, I'll save it for history and completely rewrite it.
A long time ago, Malcolm Gladwell was on The Hour, and he talked about his "10,000-Hour Rule" from his book Outliers. When I saw that interview, I realized I've put in my 10,000 hours on a couple of topics now.
However, when I now think back on it, I see a big difference between the "expertise" 10,000 hours of intuitive interest, versus 10,000 hours of practice with a learned skill.
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I finally pieced a bunch of ideas together. When apart, each has always felt like they were missing something. Put together, and there is an epiphany.
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A programming can re-use bits of their code, so they don't have to write it over and over in their addon. This is good.
That sort of re-useable code can be put into a "library" that can be shared by different addons.
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Source: usenet: utastro!nather, May 21, 1983.
A recent article devoted to the macho side of programming made the bald and unvarnished statement:
Real Programmers write in Fortran. [ see Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal ]
Maybe they do now, in this decadent era of Lite beer, hand calculators and "user-friendly" software but back in the Good Old Days, when the term "software" sounded funny and Real Computers were made out of drums and vacuum tubes, Real Programmers wrote in machine code. Not Fortran. Not RATFOR. Not, even, assembly language. Machine Code. Raw, unadorned, inscrutable hexadecimal numbers. Directly.
Working with regular expressions while listening to dance music.