Ciro Santilli @cirosantilli  40

One of the most enduring forms of storage! Started in the 1950s, but still used in the 2020s as the cheapest (and slowest access) archival method. Robot arms are needed to load and read them nowadays.

The opposite of volatile memory.

Computational problem where the solution is either yes or no.

When there are more than two possible answers, it is called a function problem.

Decision problems come up often in computer science because many important problems are often stated in terms of "decide if a given string belongs to given formal language".

A problem that has more than two possible yes/no outputs.

It is therefore a generalization of a decision problem.

A solution to a computational problem!

Compiler + other closely related crap like linker.

We use the term "automatic programming" to mean "generating code from natural language".

The ultimate high level of which is of course to program with:which is basically the goal of artificial general intelligence, especially according to The Employment Test definition of AGI.

The term has not always had that sense:sums it up.

But in the current AI boom, this is the sense that matters, so that's what we will go with.

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Reproducible builds allow anyone to verify that a binary large object contains what it claims to contain!

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