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A Swift function must follow four rules to behave like a function in math: A function must always take an argument. A function must always return a value. A function must not depend on anything that changes. A function must not change anything by itself. A function with such properties is called pure. Calling a pure function with the same arguments always returns the same result. A pure function is just a combination of its arguments.
Functions in Swift: Pure, Higher-Order and First-Class Functions, Currying and Partial Application
Vadim Bulavin
They jostled for wing-space with the gulls and pigeons, fought the rats for leavings. Humans tended to regard all these scavenger species with a certain derision. Filthy, diseased, debased. Not seeing that the simple ability to live in the interstices of human society was in itself a prime evolutionary adaptation and the mark of ingenuity and success.
Children of Memory
Adrian Tchaikovsky
And because modern machine learning is the field that it is, obviously a major step in capabilities is to just encourage the model to predict token sequences that tend to include more incremental reasoning.
Why I think strong general AI is coming soon
lesswrong.com
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