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An interesting analysis... but I'm so tired of punditry. Sick of a priori pontification and postulations. I prefer the hacker mentality which is to build it,
by grovulent 14y ago
An interesting analysis... but I'm so tired of punditry. Sick of a priori pontification and postulations.
I prefer the hacker mentality which is to build it, release it and see if it works. There are a crap tonne of variables never controlled for in Denniger's philosophy.
- nathanb 14y agoBy your logic we should also build bridges and tell people to drive over them and see if they collapse. There is a time and a place for analysis and trying to understand, a priori, the failure modes of a system. As the potential for loss increases, the importance of "pontification and postulations" (hopefully more of the latter than the former!) also increases.
- grovulent 14y agoOkay - well if you would grant me the generosity of assuming a little common sense in my perspective - any reasonable engineer would perform all possible testing in the building phase of a project. The point remains - in the real world there be a zillion variables that your tests almost certainly won't account for. I agree that there is room for a priori pontification - at the hypothesis formation stage of theory building, but that's about it. Except folks like denniger aren't forming hypotheses that can be tested at all. He's just waxing lyrical - tensing his ideological bow.