Morning Spam

[Karl Semich]

On Thu, Aug 26, 2021, 5:54 PM Punk-BatSoup-Stasi 2.0 <punks at tfwno.gf> wrote:

> On Thu, 26 Aug 2021 17:47:37 -0400
> Karl Semich <0xloem at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Aug 26, 2021, 3:03 PM Punk-BatSoup-Stasi 2.0 <punks at tfwno.gf>
> wrote:
> >
> > > On Thu, 26 Aug 2021 12:38:50 -0400
> > > Karl <gmkarl at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Machine Learning
> > >
> > >
> > >         please stop spreading the highly idiotic and toxic idea that
> > > there's such a thing as machine 'learning' .
> > >
> >
> > Man I came up with the character name months ago!  You could have
> mentioned
> > it then.
>
>
>         Oh that was meant as a character name? My bad, I missed it.
> Still...
>

> Machine Learning Marketer is in their office.

Would it be reasonable for me to infer that I am writing such mindless
drivel that people are responding to only words here and there without any
regard for their context at all?

Or did you miss the caps and other references :-)

>
> > "The data-based algorithm-weighting technology being called 'machine
> > learning' to distract people from the possibility of real automated
> > algorithm design."
> >
>
>         it's not a 'technology' either. It's just a programming technique.
> And I'm not sure


I get the impression its a different study than programming nowadays, not
really certain.  It seems much more about using programs around data than
writing them, to me, could be wrong though.

what you mean by  "real automated algorithm design".


Software that can itself construct outlines for writing other software,
where the outlines are tuned to tasks, possibly new tasks.

        Anyaway, computers running some shitty software are not
> 'intelligent' and they don't 'learn'. Intelligence and the ability to learn
> only exist in humans and to a lesser degree in other animals.
>

Happy to pick words people prefer.  All the same patterns of varying
mysteriousness, complexity, effectiveness, and domains, to me.

>
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