Ganguin, Descartes, Bayes: A Diurnal Golem’s Brain (dl.acm.org)
from jnkrtech@programming.dev to programming@programming.dev on 23 Oct 2025 04:10
https://programming.dev/post/39523481

A fascinating paper in which the authors write a probabilistic program that infers its own source code based only on its past guesses at what its own source code is. It was at the Onward! conference, and is written in a really unusual humanistic style. One of the coolest papers I’ve read all year.

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