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Also, how is this thinking reflected in code poetry? @Temkin if possible, I would like to add to your questions another "form" (of code poetry? of non-humbleness?): the obfuscated code contests. There, one can surely find conciseness and cle…
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@leonardoaranda you are challenging more than these premises only . I'm very intrigued by your reflections. If I understand you well, you are saying that: 1. there are data, which are all the information accessible to the machine (at a certain…
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@jeremydouglass code with traces might similarly suggest ways that it was not a single composition typed at a single IDE in a single work session It seems a simple and logical assumption, but... I've seen different ways of using spac…
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I'm probably on the wrong path but I'm just trying to understand... I think of models and weights as data. Data are not different from code (code is data for the interpreter). In logic programming it is difficult to tell what is code (rules) and wh…
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Probably a necessary step towards this kind of analysis should be something similar to DOI: there should be a direct, permanent URI that allows for retrieving of single chunks of code, without the need of inserting all the code inside the publicatio…
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I'd like to link this very interesting discussion to the history of source version control systems. It seems the the Librarian was the first one back in 1962. Today programmers tend to use VCS like Git for pratical reasons, but this in turn make it…
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I did some exercises with the aim to better understand which could be the uses of Generative Artificial Intelligence to (critically) read code, as an help for someone who isn't able to do so by himself. You can find a full description of my attempts…
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Just one more question about languages: I was thinking that the same dialogue could be held in Italian. So I asked again to ChatGPT to "act as a critical code studies advisor to a scholar who wants to consider this piece of code and to explain with …
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Questioning myself about the possibility to use Generative Artificial Intelligence to (critically) read code, as an help for someone who isn't able to do so by himself, yesterday night (here GMT+1) after the live meeting I've tried an exercise. I've…
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@ebuswell very interesting. I agree that LLM models are not natural objects and they should obey to some business goals - and a weird code is less sellable than a classical styled one. The problem comes to who will be the intended buyer: a freshman?…
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@Temkin I loved Piet, but Light Pattern will be definitely my favourite esolang from now on !!!
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* Is a prompt a kind of code? One can see prompts as the first step of a series of translations, as always happen while programming (transpiling, or interpreting, or compiling) programs. The more you are precise, the more the code generated (step …
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Very brillant! I wonder if the html code (not the page shown) was a message in the bottle for someone having the idea of looking behind, the time and the competencies to analyze the code and the will to to a deeper dig.
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@edmondchang thanks! Perhaps one can read it as a fragment of life: someone ($I) deciding to better understand which are her/his ($I->) deep desires. The first part (24-34) is an (auto)analysys with some fundamental questions: who am $I? which…
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<?php /* * me_myself_and_other_mes.php * * Copyright 2024 Stefano Penge <stefano@stefanopenge.it> * * This poem is free software; you can modify * it under the terms of your own desire * and/or you can redistribute it in terms of your wi…
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Yes I know it is too late but... I was thinking that the difference between a classical poem analysis and a code analysis is also the role of the subject which is doing the job. A subject with body, a personal history, specific competencies. Where t…
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Hello, I'm Stefano Penge, a rather old programmer with a philosophy background and an strong interest in child education. Since 2013, while coding educational software, I was questioning myself and my colleagues about what make a bit of code so diff…
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Not perhaps specific to this thread, but shouldn't any "code reading" have a way to point to a specific line of code? There are technical ways to do so: if the source is in github, one can write https://github.com/jeffshrager/elizagen.org/blob/59…
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It seems that I can't delete this one, so I add some words. My aim is to find a way to show the depth of source code (beyond the surface: who, how, why wrote it) to people completely unaware of it, without technical competencies. This is not easy, b…
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Hi everyone. Here's Stefano Penge, from Rome, Italy. Coming from humanities studies (BD in philosophy), my work is always been in computer science field, especially in designing and developing educational software and platforms. Since '90 I've tried…