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Sounds good to me! Where can I learn about these techniques. I've got a 4 CPU Ghz machine sitting waiting for my keystrokes. Please tell me how I can get thi

Sounds good to me! Where can I learn about these techniques. I've got a 4 CPU Ghz machine sitting waiting for my keystrokes. Please tell me how I can get this thing to help me write software.

dekhn 11y ago
It is best learned by working at companies who are practicing this art.
- codecamper 11y ago
  Hrm. So the revolution will be closed source? No, seriously... are there books on the subject? Open source libraries? Which companies are developing such tools? Googling is not turning up a whole lot.
  - dekhn 11y ago
    I'd say that Facebook, Google, Twitter, and a few others are really good at this. Many of them release a fair amount of their code as open source, but these sorts of capabilities are generally dependent on having absurd amounts of data, which is prohibitively challenging for anybody who doesn't run a website that sees massive traffic.
    - codecamper 11y ago
      Are we talking about the same thing? I was referring the point in the interview when Eric says that ML will help make software development teams smaller. I was imagining some bit of AI that had figured out the best way to download asynchronously. Or the best way to layout a UI with code. You could maybe describe a process using natural language & it would just create a best attempt for you. You could then modify or steer it. Seems doable, but I don't see how you'd need big data from massive numbers of users. And seems very interesting given that APIS and what they can do is much more finite than the physical world.
      - dekhn 11y ago
        Finding the best layout of a UI using a machine learning algorithm is an example of what I meant. In theory it means you don't really need a UX team or a UI team alongside an engineering team. I went back and re-read the interview and I believe I'm channeling Eric properly.
        codecamper 11y ago
        I'm very much interested in these things. To remain competitive indie developers and the open source community will need to apply these methods as well. I hope to see some publicly available tools soon.

Sounds good to me! Where can I learn about these techniques. I've got a 4 CPU Ghz machine sitting waiting for my keystrokes. Please tell me how I can get this thing to help me write software.

dekhn 11y ago

It is best learned by working at companies who are practicing this art.

codecamper 11y ago
Hrm. So the revolution will be closed source? No, seriously... are there books on the subject? Open source libraries? Which companies are developing such tools? Googling is not turning up a whole lot.
- dekhn 11y ago
  I'd say that Facebook, Google, Twitter, and a few others are really good at this. Many of them release a fair amount of their code as open source, but these sorts of capabilities are generally dependent on having absurd amounts of data, which is prohibitively challenging for anybody who doesn't run a website that sees massive traffic.
  - codecamper 11y ago
    Are we talking about the same thing? I was referring the point in the interview when Eric says that ML will help make software development teams smaller. I was imagining some bit of AI that had figured out the best way to download asynchronously. Or the best way to layout a UI with code. You could maybe describe a process using natural language & it would just create a best attempt for you. You could then modify or steer it. Seems doable, but I don't see how you'd need big data from massive numbers of users. And seems very interesting given that APIS and what they can do is much more finite than the physical world.
    - dekhn 11y ago
      Finding the best layout of a UI using a machine learning algorithm is an example of what I meant. In theory it means you don't really need a UX team or a UI team alongside an engineering team. I went back and re-read the interview and I believe I'm channeling Eric properly.
      - codecamper 11y ago
        I'm very much interested in these things. To remain competitive indie developers and the open source community will need to apply these methods as well. I hope to see some publicly available tools soon.