microcode, compilers, and supercomputer architecture

From: Buck Savage <hhacker_at_home.com>
Date: Sun Apr 4 21:07:53 1999

>> The only deliberately non-deterministic development tool I've ever used
was
>> a Xilinx FPGA fitter. Somehow it seemed reminiscent of the bogosort
>> algorithm.
>
>Don't get me started on the Xilinx tools. Suffice it to say, I spent
>enough time undoing the damage that they did to my designs. I hate
>computers that think they can design better than I can. They are almost
>always wrong ;-)
>
>-tony
>

My point, exactly. It is clearly the case that automated mechanisms are
inferior to a quality human intelligence. For anyone to think otherwise
is to relegate decisions of life to a computer program. As we all know,
or should all know, artificial intelligence falls _way_ short of its lofty
goals.

William R. Buckley
Received on Sun Apr 04 1999 - 21:07:53 BST

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