Jason Gorman on Nostr: I don't see how stochastic interpretation of ambiguous natural language ...
I don't see how stochastic interpretation of ambiguous natural language specifications of computer programs can ever be efficient. Language entropy will ensure that incorrect interpretations will always outnumber correct ones. That's a *lot* of "No, that's not what I meant"!
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