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Read further down, and the C-style syntax (curly braces, etc.) was a cause for problems: "Ultimately, using a technique we call Token Accuracy Mapping, which i

Read further down, and the C-style syntax (curly braces, etc.) was a cause for problems: "Ultimately, using a technique we call Token Accuracy Mapping, which is basically a way to figure out which tokens may have caused the problems, it appeared that C-style syntax was plausibly the culprit."

moron4hire 11y ago
That's my point. They don't seem to have gone any deeper than surface syntax. They renamed "while" to "repeat", but is a while-loop-by-any-other-name even the best looping construct in the given scenario?
- jack9 11y ago
  Quorum is only about syntactical optimization. The reasoning for specific implementation is beyond the scope of the "simple" problem they are trying to study.
  - nickpsecurity 11y ago
    You again. You never answered my question... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10775054 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10775054 ...about why you believed the items on my list didn't constitute scientific evidence. Hypothesis, analysis, verification by experimental practice, matched predictions, replication via re-application by diverse crowds, and delivering results. All sounds like scientific method to me. Many studies in academic and industry with these properties over the years. If you reject all of that, I'd like to see what your version of the scientific method is as it's different than what most fields of study are using. I still contend that my numbered list represents scientific evidence in favor of whatever those methods were applied to. In that case, there's scientific evidence for everything I recommended with varying strength.
    - jack9 11y ago
      > You again. You never answered my question... I didn't read it. > The proof is in the literature I'm referencing rather than me dumping all of it in the comment box You never cited anything. Most importantly, some of the enumerated "points"? that you espoused are methodology Quorum uses. I'm sure you can help them out, if this subject is of interest to you.
      - nickpsecurity 11y ago
        Most importantly, some of the enumerated "points"? that you espoused are methodology Quorum uses." Good. Means my original claim is validated. "I'm sure you can help them out, if this subject is of interest to you." Might. Another survey is long overdo too.
  - moron4hire 11y ago
    That's a good way to find local-maxima, but not global.

moron4hire 11y ago

That's my point. They don't seem to have gone any deeper than surface syntax. They renamed "while" to "repeat", but is a while-loop-by-any-other-name even the best looping construct in the given scenario?

jack9 11y ago
Quorum is only about syntactical optimization. The reasoning for specific implementation is beyond the scope of the "simple" problem they are trying to study.
- nickpsecurity 11y ago
  You again. You never answered my question... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10775054 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10775054 ...about why you believed the items on my list didn't constitute scientific evidence. Hypothesis, analysis, verification by experimental practice, matched predictions, replication via re-application by diverse crowds, and delivering results. All sounds like scientific method to me. Many studies in academic and industry with these properties over the years. If you reject all of that, I'd like to see what your version of the scientific method is as it's different than what most fields of study are using. I still contend that my numbered list represents scientific evidence in favor of whatever those methods were applied to. In that case, there's scientific evidence for everything I recommended with varying strength.
  - jack9 11y ago
    > You again. You never answered my question... I didn't read it. > The proof is in the literature I'm referencing rather than me dumping all of it in the comment box You never cited anything. Most importantly, some of the enumerated "points"? that you espoused are methodology Quorum uses. I'm sure you can help them out, if this subject is of interest to you.
    - nickpsecurity 11y ago
      Most importantly, some of the enumerated "points"? that you espoused are methodology Quorum uses." Good. Means my original claim is validated. "I'm sure you can help them out, if this subject is of interest to you." Might. Another survey is long overdo too.
- moron4hire 11y ago
  That's a good way to find local-maxima, but not global.