Christos Argyropoulos MD PhDMar 8
Very weird to be arguing with Gemini about the equivalence of chartr (in #rstats) to tr (in #Perl) , with the slopbot focusing on the squeeze flag of tr and use cases that involve counting substitutions to push gsub and gregexpr.
OTH the comparison of environments to lexical closures was okish
Show threadPascal AntoniouMar 8
@ChristosArgyrop I think it's high time we should admit these things really do do (sic) some kind of thinking. It's not just statistical slop anymore. It's concepts, and some are actually original. Is it human thinking? No. But airplanes do fly, although they don't fly like birds. It's still flight though.
Show threadChristos Argyropoulos
@pascal @ChristosArgyrop No anthropomorphizing please. I was just fighting the ghost of the redditor in the machine
Mar 8 at 6:28pmWeb
Show threadPascal AntoniouMar 8
@ChristosArgyrop I explicitly declared it's not human thinking. But it is thinking, i.e. they do have distilled concepts, and they really do inference on them to reach a target, even combining in non-before existing ways and then assessing critically, to arrive at a new conclusion. So, one can't say they don't think. I didn't say planes were kind of birds.