al45tair

And even if OP could show that physics couldn’t be simulated, it still wouldn’t follow that AGI was impossible, or even that it couldn’t be achieved by approximating the simulation that was proved to be impossible to do accurately.

AGI is clearly possible, because our brains are fundamentally machines, and there’s no reason in principle why we couldn’t build something similar. Right now we don’t - as human beings - have the ability to do that, but it clearly isn’t impossible since cellular machinery is able to build it in the first place.

As a Brit, IMO both are perfectly acceptable in English prose. It isn't unusual to say "October the 4th" as opposed to "the 4th of October".

What’s wrong with just telling him it’s inappropriate and that the answer is no?

Agreed. CocoaPods might be useful if there were a lot of high quality library code out there that we could use, but right now, like Mike, I just don't see it.

The main use-case I can see for something like CocoaPods actually has to do with commercial library code---i.e. code that you purchase and for which you get proper support.

I'll also add this: CocoaPods, as it stands today, also creates a risk, in that it's possible that an updated version of some library you're depending on might have a different license---maybe one that's incompatible with the license for the software you're working on. As far as I can tell, CocoaPods has no mechanism to deal automatically with this issue, which makes its use in commercial projects dangerous IMO.