On Tue, Dec 10, 2019 at 4:41 PM songbird <songb...@anthive.com> wrote: > > Chris Angelico wrote: > ... > > What if neither works, because there are assumptions that don't work? > > then you get stuck doing it by hand, but you would have > been stuck doing it before for sure by hand so if you can > write something which might get some of the easy cases > done then at least you're saving your efforts for the > harder stuff.
The easy cases are easy for anything, and don't need AI. > > I get the very strong impression that you've never tried this. > > of course not! i don't have that kind of pipeline > or machine power and i'm several years away from being > where i'd like to be in terms of understanding the > language itself. i hope to have the time over the > next few years to learn enough but i don't know how > that will go. > > i'm glad in looking around more the past few evenings > that the conversion effort is making progress and > things are not as dire as some have made it out to be. > i just hope the lessons have been learned going > forwards. Never even done it manually, I mean. It's very difficult to try to design an AI to do something that you can't do yourself and don't even understand the problem. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list