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Ask HN: What are the biggest misconceptions you've given up about computing?
- h2odragon 5y agothere are no tiny cute little fairy creatures carrying out calculations on little abacuses. in fact, it all really looks a lot like plumbing.
- PaulHoule 5y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homunculus_argument https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homunculus_argument ?
- gjvc 5y agofor example: "Lisp is an AI language"
- Minor49er 5y agoThe Singularity will never arrive
- woliveirajr 5y agoThat if you do the same thing you'll get the same results.
- muzani 5y agoOh boy wait till the AI revolution comes in.
- gus_massa 5y agoNot me, but one of my students thought that the result of the functions were magically cached by defaults, so if you call f(10) and call it again later, the computer remembers the value and it does not affect the run time. It change the complexity of the algorithm if f(10) is inside a loop and 10 is actually a variable.
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- yakubin 5y ago- "Iterating over all of 32-bit space will take forever" - "Applications run on top of operating systems, i.e. their code is executed by operating systems" - "Text is a good API"
- tedmiston 5y agoResources are finite.
- gjvc 5y ago"disk space matters"