On Wed, 04 Dec 2013 15:39:35 +0000, scott wrote:

>> You know what? Computers that program themselves... Yeah, never
>> happened.
> 
> You could argue that neural networks and other machine learning
> techniques are computers programming themselves...

Actually, it has sort of happened; I read something the other day about 
Watson coming up with optimal coding techniques for coding problems.  
Modifying its own algorithms, given that, ought to be trivial.

Jim

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