Phil Wallach

The idea of an AI prize was quite intriguing and I came to this site hoping to find something interesting.  However this is one of those cases where either these guys are crazy or I am missing something.
This is the competition:
The contest is about compressing the human world knowledge as well as possible.
If your compressor […]

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Why do developers make mistakes?
1. Ignorance
2. Stress
3. Boredom
4. Human frailties
Categories of error
“We can either categorize based on root cause in the code (e.g., null pointer dereference, failure to unlock after acquiring a lock, buffer overrun, etc.) or based on a higher level reason for the mistake (e.g., improper error handling, typo, copy and paste, etc.) […]

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