William Byrd, "Self-conscious Reflexive Interpreters"

siiky
2023/02/09
2023/02/09
2023/02/09
talk,programming

https://fosdem.org/2023/schedule/event/reflexiveinterpreters

Talk about research he's doing along with Nada Amin. This was one of the talks I was most excited about! But in the end it wasn't as exciting as that. :'(

It felt like a history lesson and I failed to get the point he was trying to make.

• McCarthy, "Programs with Common Sense"

Describes how a program may improve by accepting advice from another program that may "understand" the problem at hand. Some of the wishful features are that a common-sensical program may improve through advice, and also improve the process of improvement.

• Jon Doyle, "Reflexive Interpreters"
• Gerald Jay Sussman, "A Computational Model of Skill Acquisition"
• Marvin Minsky, "The Society of Mind"
• "A Unified Approach to Solving 7 Programming Problems"
• Barliman "smart" editor -- the thing he's worked on that has some program synthesis capabilities through miniKanren
• Chris Hanson, Gerald Jay Sussman, "Software Design for Flexibility"

I saw a bookmark for jisho.org -- does William Byrd speak/study 日本語? :o