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too bad universe doesn't ship with unobfuscated source so that you could see whether you're unlucky, or just skill issue
by __s 6mo ago
too bad universe doesn't ship with unobfuscated source so that you could see whether you're unlucky, or just skill issue
- Tepix 6mo agoThe source is right there, you just have to grok it.
- Sardtok 6mo agoWell, it's kind of a machine code for a self-modifying compiler, so there's that.
- chii 6mo agoThe source is not just dna - that's just one type of architecture that exists. There might be others that operate on different instruction sets. The real source is mathematics. But some might say it's incomplete.
- embedding-shape 6mo agoMathematics is the FORTRAN of the real source. Closer to a real source is probably "real" things like atoms and other universal things. If I remember correctly, Stargate-SG1 at one point had some ideas about this sort of universal language, that multiple species could use for communication, as any sufficiently intelligent specie probably been able to see atoms and so on, but may have completely other way of doing "math-like" stuff.
- RobotToaster 6mo agoI'm still waiting for the slackers at CERN to finish decompiling it.
- m_mueller 6mo agothat's great, could read the source code on how to unify gravity and quantum mechanics for all energy levels? vibeing to a nobel price will be cool...
- lioeters 6mo agoGood news: the universe is written in LISP. Bad news: with no comments.
- latexr 6mo ago> the universe is written in LISP Ostensibly. Honestly most of it was hacked together with Perl. https://xkcd.com/224/ https://xkcd.com/224/
- mghackerlady 6mo agoI like to imagine perl was bootstrapped from forth and used to build a lisp
- dpcan 6mo agoYou can ask AI to comment an entire code base now in as much detail as you need.
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- embedding-shape 6mo agoComments explaining what the code does, which is what an LLM could answer, are basically useless comments. Comments that describes why the code is how it is, is a bit more valuable, but also something LLMs cannot really reliably infer by just looking at the code.
- cableshaft 6mo agoI don't have to check the source code to know that for me it's a skill issue :/