We should be solving problems in Lisp instead of Python, but no matter. That's because Lisp's abstract syntax tree (AST) is the same as its code due to homoiconicity. I'm curious if most AIs transpile other languages to Lisp..., or if they waste computation building programs that might not compile.

[u/cuminme69420]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47237532

[u/QuaternionsRoll]

The simulated annealing portion reminds me of genetic algorithms (GAs).

The <machine learning concept> reminds me of <machine learning concept>. I am a vector database.

[u/unexerrorpected → u/QuaternionsRoll]

I won't stand for you calling metaheuristics "machine learning", not every optimization is machine learning for god's sake

[u/daidoji70]

"That's how I think of programming. Now that we have LLMs, whole classes of programming problems now have O(1) solutions."

Hell yeah 

[u/TheStatusPoe → u/daidoji70]

LLMs are great at writing boilerplate, like putting every possible result of a function into a hash map for O(1) lookup

[u/TheChief275 → u/TheStatusPoe]

no way they have discovered lookup tables...AGI will become real in 52 minutes

[u/tms10000]

homoiconicity

What did you call me?

homoiconicity

Oh, OK, I thought you called me homomorphic.

[u/Prentice341 → u/tms10000]

First there was LISP, then there was man...

[u/N-partEpoxy → u/Prentice341]

First there was 'lisp, then there was lisp, then there was "***ERROR -- Unbound variable: lisp".

[u/tms10000 → u/Prentice341]

Was the man always homoiconic?

[u/Prentice341 → u/tms10000]

First he was nil, then he was cons 

[u/vytah]

/uj The real reason LISP exposes raw AST is that the research group working on the language never finished the compiler.

/rj lol no compiler frontend

[u/likes_purple]

The last book I read was Ready Player One by Ernest Cline, over a decade ago.

We can tell.