Insects and Entropy
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Insects and Entropy
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#3So, the moral of the story is that your code should do one thing and do it well.
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#4That dumb kid's name? Albert Einstein.
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#5What does this have to do with entropy?
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#6The story is not that far fetched. Decades ago (I think) there was a computer simulated game designed to play out what is called the Prisoner's Dilemma hosted by professor Axelrod. And the winning program? It was the simplest one, which the author had named Tit-for-Tat.
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#7So, the moral of the story is that your code should do one thing and do it well.
I think the moral is that in this case reliability wins. (And in this case, strapping a shell loop around your program that restarts it every n seconds would have worked.)
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#8The story is not that far fetched. Decades ago (I think) there was a computer simulated game designed to play out what is called the Prisoner's Dilemma hosted by professor Axelrod. And the winning program? It was the simplest one, which the author had named Tit-for-Tat.
Oh, but Tit-for-Tat didn't win because the other programs crashed.
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#9Occam's razor at work. The simpler the logic, the more likely it is that it does not contain unexpected faults than a system which has more complex logic.
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#10Occam's razor at work. The simpler the logic, the more likely it is that it does not contain unexpected faults than a system which has more complex logic.
The article claims that the kid's program contained lots of dead code.