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Turns out, machines already do write most or really all of the “code” and we use higher level more human-like languages to tell magic programs what code to gene
by skywhopper 9y ago
Turns out, machines already do write most or really all of the “code” and we use higher level more human-like languages to tell magic programs what code to generate. Those magic programs are called compilers and interpreters, and they already do a lot to protect humans from the extreme heterogeneity of hardware.
- mr_toad 9y agoThere has been research going back to the very early stages of ML to apply it to compiler heuristics. For example, applying decision trees to loop unrolling.