I see it as a better Physics - current Physics as we understand it is messy, continuous, unintuitive, and contradictory. Kinda frustrating for computer science folks.
Game of Life on the other hand is so simple it can be written up in a few lines of code, and still can give rise to endless complexity.
> A general pattern seems to be that Artificial Intelligence is used when first doing some new thing. Then, once the value of doing that thing is established, society will find a way to provide the necessary data in a machine readable format, obviating (and improving on) the AI models.
Fascinating observation. Maybe the real value of AI is bootstrapping solutions to these public goods problems.
According to Jetbrains' own surveys, VS Code is indeed growing in popularity - from 7% of Python developers in 2017, to 29% in 2020, while Pycharm remained at about 33%:
Because I care about the effectiveness of charity, and given some philosophical assumptions, the long-term future of humanity is by far the most important cause.
They are a non-profit that are advocating and researching clean meat and plant-based alternatives. I recommend this 75 minute interview with it's director if you want to understand why is it such an important and effective cause:
"When asked by his assistant what his reaction would have been if general relativity had not been confirmed by Eddington and Dyson in 1919, Einstein famously made the quip: "Then I would feel sorry for the dear Lord. The theory is correct anyway.""
"Western education forces lifelong Muslims to more thoroughly analyze their beliefs, which until that point they just accepted without questioning. They then go to one extreme or the other: either they reject those beliefs, or take them to their logical conclusion and decide to convert/kill infidels."
It's interesting, but it doesn't address why this would happen to engineers in particular, rather than just all western educated Muslims.
Presumably because engineers are trained to be analytical and to trust their analysis, so they are more likely to follow through on the outcome of their soul searching.
Or presumably, as in another post here, that engineers tend to be more educated in the west and work more in the west than those in other disciplines, and so have more exposure to the west.
Game of Life on the other hand is so simple it can be written up in a few lines of code, and still can give rise to endless complexity.