On 2017-09-14 11:20, James Mcphee wrote: > On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 9:23 AM, wrote: >> https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/learning-how-code-still-worth-rajat-bhageria >> which predicts that computers will be self coding and coding skills >> will >> be obsolete. >> >> I've read other such articles in the recent past. I'm also reading >> about >> robots replacing jobs.... > Ahh, I remember this argument when COBOL came out.  The excitement > never changes. The fun thing about some of this machine learning stuff is that you can play with it and see exactly what it's capable of. https://github.com/karpathy/char-rnn , for example. (Warning: Requires stuff that is probably not in your package manager, installation may be a bit of a PITA.) As seen in http://crow202.org/misc/char-rnn.html and http://lewisandquark.tumblr.com/ , this particular neural network is good for comedy, but terrible at being coherent. Even with a relatively simple problem ("name a paint color"), you wind up with http://lewisandquark.tumblr.com/post/160776374467/new-paint-colors-invented-by-neural-network . "Stanky Bean". Sure, let's go with that. As Public Enemy said many years ago, don't believe the hype. Not yet, anyway. -- Crow202 Blog: http://crow202.org/wordpress There is no Darkness in Eternity But only Light too dim for us to see. --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss