>The Mote in God's Eye is a science fiction novel by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, which explores the concept of the "moties," an alien species that has a unique method of starship construction. The moties build their ships in a modular way, with many different components that can be added or removed as needed. This makes their ships highly adaptable and able to respond to changing situations, but also somewhat unpredictable and complex.
>John Nagle's comment, "Late binding is programming for moties," suggests that he is drawing a parallel between the adaptable but complex nature of the moties' starship construction and the approach to programming that relies on late binding. He is likely implying that late-bound programming, like the construction of motie ships, can lead to systems that are highly flexible and capable of responding to a wide range of inputs, but at the same time, these systems can be more complex and harder to predict, maintain, or debug.
Ok so who gets to be the Crazy Eddie of late binding?
(Also, I've never seen a dataset cited before but I kind of love it, wow. But also, I absolutely detest that there is zero ability to go back & see what trained these weights, what source material these ideas & words came from.)
>John Nagle's comment, "Late binding is programming for moties," suggests that he is drawing a parallel between the adaptable but complex nature of the moties' starship construction and the approach to programming that relies on late binding. He is likely implying that late-bound programming, like the construction of motie ships, can lead to systems that are highly flexible and capable of responding to a wide range of inputs, but at the same time, these systems can be more complex and harder to predict, maintain, or debug.
--Yi-34B-Chat