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Comment by mjburgess

Two points,

(1) everything which makes programs useful is impure device access and state change, discretely sequenced over time

(2) grad. desc. et al. do not learn discrete constraints (hence why NNs are bad at learning operators: they cant. x+x is defined fa. x; not fa x. in the training set).

parent mjburgess 4 years ago

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