Peter F Hamiltons Sci-Fi novels, do something similar they differentiate between SI (Sentient Intelligence) which is basically their own being, and is not used by people as it would be essentially slavery. And for General Purpose "AI" they use RI which is Restricted Intelligence with strict limits placed around them.
I still do not understand how Python won out over lua. Which is imho the superior scripting language just constrained by a smaller userbase.
Lua is like embeddable in what 500 KiB. While python takes its about 200 to 300 MiB
I think Lua is an interesting language and I really like it having TCO, so that I can properly write recursive logic like in a Scheme. However, I am somewhat worried about data structures. When I read about Lua, it always seems quite thin on that front. On the other hand I just looked up Lua data structures and found a book called "Programming in Lua" and the first page I read was about "tables", which I assume to be something like dictionaries in Python, and it says that arrays and others are implemented on top of "tables". What about immutable data structures? Are there libraries for purely functional data structures? How complete are they?
These things I don't usually look up for Python, because Python is clearly not a very functional language and doesn't have the immutable data structures at all, and doesn't even feature TCO, so basically Python is mostly lost, when it comes to doing FP, and I accept, that it is not really that kind of language. I only try to use FP knowledge to avoid common pitfalls, when coding in Python. But from Lua I would expect better.
I don't think being 1-indexed is what made the reason.
While it was already in widespread use, Python really took off in the scientific/research community, thanks first to numpy and then to all the other libraries built on top of it up to the current crop of ML/AI libraries.
Those people used to write a lot code in Fortran, Matlab and R (depending on their research area) which are all 1-indexed.
Also Lua is kind of frozen in version 5.1, if one cares about performace, while even if CPython only recently got JIT love, there are several other alternatives.
Well I as a Customer who had to deal with AI bots as Customer Service have significantly lower Customer Satisfaction. Because I don't wanna deal with some clanker. Who doesn't realy understand what I am talking about.
I don't know about "only created in one country", but there are certainly products which are only made in a few countries. One example is LCD and OLED panels - virtually all are made in China, Taiwan, and South Korea. As far as I'm aware, there is no large-scale fabrication of these parts in the Americas or Europe.
I love duckdb for a way different reason than most. It has a much more expressive type system compared to Sqlite. Like Time/Date also Unions.
Its like a mini postgress.
At one point we realy need to make web2. With a blank slate and maybe a much more sane implementation of Websites. Maybe just allow CSS Html and all functions need to run over Wasm. Wasm would need to get some more features for that but at least, you would avoid allot of bullshit.
thats literally like 90% of anything. This is open source, code maintained in large swaths by volunteers. Obviously there is not extensive background checks that are being done, the amount of resources that would require is not something the Linux Foundation probably has.
I hear you, but on HN it's crazy. That person is the messia who will tell you the real truth that Big Academia and Mainstream University won't tell you.
reply