On Mar 7, 2008, at 4:25 PM, Dave Griffiths wrote:
>>> I think so.... but then can we also have a space where one of the
>>> dimensions is "while-loop"? When I wrote that I meant it as a
>>> sort of
>>> joke but now it's starting to sound like a actual good idea to me.
>>
>> Yes this is a key idea I think... How can we arrange all the
>> possible
>> actions of a system of computation within a couple of dimensions? So
>> you could take two programs, and find another program halfway between
>> them?
>
That's a bit like taking Shakespeare and Jackson Pollock and trying
to cross-fade between them.
> It would be interesting to somehow run PCA[1] on a set of computer
> programs and derive eigenprograms[2] to form a reduced
> dimensionality, and
> use them to generate new ones. What does your average program look
> like?
> It might be possible with some genetic programming type
> shenanigans, but
> it probably wouldn't work for various boring reasons ;)
>
> [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principal_components_analysis
> [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eigenface
>
Received on Fri Mar 07 2008 - 16:52:00 GMT