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pishpash • 10/11/2024 • 1 reply • view on HN

I think you overlook how algorithms come about. How does GPT write novel code, which are algorithms?


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tananan • 10/11/2024

Not sure I track. It would help to know where you're coming from.

Given a long enough life-span, a lot of pencil and paper, and some dice, I could do the forward passes of GPT and "write novel code", without there having been any reasoning about the code I'm writing down - I wouldn't even need to know what the code is about.

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