On Thu, Aug 26, 2021, 5:54 PM Punk-BatSoup-Stasi 2.0
   <[1]punks@tfwno.gf> wrote:

     On Thu, 26 Aug 2021 17:47:37 -0400
     Karl Semich <[2]0xloem@gmail.com> wrote:
     > On Thu, Aug 26, 2021, 3:03 PM Punk-BatSoup-Stasi 2.0
     <[3]punks@tfwno.gf> wrote:
     >
     > > On Thu, 26 Aug 2021 12:38:50 -0400
     > > Karl <[4]gmkarl@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.

References

   1. mailto:punks@tfwno.gf
   2. mailto:0xloem@gmail.com
   3. mailto:punks@tfwno.gf
   4. mailto:gmkarl@gmail.com