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Re: I made a programming language with M&Ms

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Which part made you conclude there's AI involved?

the bold section headers and bullet points. but who cares. i don't.

I literally write like the article on similar write ups, where do you think the AI's learned to write this way from.

I really don't get the AI vibes from the actual writing of it

Re: I made a programming language with M&Ms

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Author of this silly project here! Sharing a bit of backstory on why I decided to work on this; Firstly, “for fun” but primarily because I felt like I started losing the childlike wonder/whimsy I once had with programming. So I started this new hobby where I ask myself “can I hack on this?” upon getting/seeing something. For instance, I got this new Aula F75 keyboard (really good keyboard for the price btw, it sounds…

This makes the world a better place. I got a little oxytocin hit just from the thought that somewhere on this world, someone is working on this problem. Now I'll be kinder to old ladies and give those poor puppies a pass.

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Psychopath implies lack of empathy so I don't think that's quite the word you want. You could maybe repurpose "psychotic" though!

“ As it turned out, there is nothing special about psychopaths when it comes to understanding or feeling empathy with others. ” https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/fulfillment-at-any-a... But maybe it is like so often more about the contradictory definitions of “empathy”, and capability vs. willingness.

How I understand the article, is that they understand why others act in certain ways, they know the mechanism of empathy, but nothing here confirms that they are empathetic themselves. I think this article's conclusion is misleading.

Re: I made a programming language with M&Ms

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it actually sounds like a fun idea, but i have one question. do you think a lightweight CNN trained on synthetic candy layouts would outperform the deterministic decoder for messy real world photos?

Yes, for messy real-world photos a lightweight CNN would probably outperform the deterministic decoder, but I’d still use it in a hybrid pipeline with classic CV for blob detection and deterministic logic for reconstructing the actual program.

Re: I made a programming language with M&Ms

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Author of this silly project here! Sharing a bit of backstory on why I decided to work on this; Firstly, “for fun” but primarily because I felt like I started losing the childlike wonder/whimsy I once had with programming. So I started this new hobby where I ask myself “can I hack on this?” upon getting/seeing something. For instance, I got this new Aula F75 keyboard (really good keyboard for the price btw, it sounds…

Great post, thanks for sharing it! When I saw the title, I thought of Lambda Calculus[0] and SKI combinators[1]. Given that there are "only six useful colors", I wonder if M&Ms could be used to implement them. 0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lambda_calculus 1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SKI_combinator_calculus

Funny you mention that, because yes, a combinator-style encoding is probably a cleaner fit for the “only six colors constraint than my stack machine. I hacked together a tiny SKI-flavored M&M reducer as a proof of concept: B=S, G=K, R=I, Y=(, O=), and N... is a free atom, so `B G G NNN` reduces to `a2`.

Gist: https://gist.github.com/mufeedvh/db930a423fdce8c1d8e495c7a3f...

Re: I made a programming language with M&Ms

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Psychopath implies lack of empathy so I don't think that's quite the word you want. You could maybe repurpose "psychotic" though!

“ As it turned out, there is nothing special about psychopaths when it comes to understanding or feeling empathy with others. ” https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/fulfillment-at-any-a... But maybe it is like so often more about the contradictory definitions of “empathy”, and capability vs. willingness.

That's interesting! But confusing as well. The test they reference (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychopathy_Checklist) includes lack of empathy. Are they saying that this criterion could be dropped from the test with no effect on the classification?

Re: I made a programming language with M&Ms

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the bold section headers and bullet points. but who cares. i don't.

I literally write like the article on similar write ups, where do you think the AI's learned to write this way from. I really don't get the AI vibes from the actual writing of it

It gave me strong vibes too. It’s the writing style. I’ve seen OpenAI write just like this. Doesn’t mean it’s bad. There’s a few other markers. Note “silly” in quotes and over use if that word. Once would be enough. But also this is very very typical. The bolting and short quite direct and a bit repetitive statements “it absolutely does not solve “dumped a bag of candy on a messy kitchen table and took a dramatic iPhone shot.”

Real example programs are where the joke becomes a language I didn’t want this to stop at “hello world with candy colors.”” The over use of quoting. The bold. It’s not like a human wouldn’t write this. But it’s unusual for a human to do this imho. All the same - it feels novel. And at the end of the day it’s a neat idea. It’s just we enter this new brave world where things written like this give you the ick. “Where do the ai learn this from?” Well I wouldn’t mind betting the author asked it to be written in a hn style post.

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