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Comment · 2 months ago
The oldest works there are from the 1880s.
Comment · 2 months ago
What kind of art do you think the MoMA (Museum of Modern Art), houses?
Comment · 3 months ago
Most of their code is locked behind closed doors.
Comment · 3 months ago
You can't bring a steak to a vegan potluck and say "Come on guys, we won't get sued over this!"
Comment · 3 months ago
"AI Use Disclosure: A majority of this code base was crafted by hand without any use of AI (which can be seen from the project's Git history)."

So much for "human programming is obsolete".

Comment · 3 months ago
Comment · 3 months ago
Prolog is a very practical language for particular tasks. Languages are tools that fill different niches.

Besides, people do stay with Prolog. The language has been going strong for many decades. New Prolog projects pop up often. This can't be said for many other unusual languages, which perished in academic obscurity.

Comment · 3 months ago
Sarcasm?
Comment · 5 months ago
A language is a set of sentences.

A sentence is a finite sequence of symbols drawn from an alphabet.

In this sense, mathematical operation tables are absolutely a language. As are natural languages.

Comment · 5 months ago
> Here we ask whether, in a task where gestures are particularly useful—namely, spontaneous demonstration in which no real object is present—speakers of a high-gesture (Italian) and a low-gesture (Dutch) culture show similarities or differences in how they teach to adults versus children.
Comment · 5 months ago
I don't have an ad blocker on my laptop. The ads I get are pretty much entirely generic and irrelevant to me, I don't remember ever consciously clicking on an ad.
Comment · 5 months ago
> That human would be turning down a potential Fields Medal for this discovery.

While interesting, this result is not Fields Medal material.

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