Please, read my reply to one of the authors of Angr, a binary analysis tool. Here is an excerpt:

> A "brute-force" algorithm (an exhaustive search, in other words) is the easiest way to find an answer to almost any engineering problem. But it often must be optimized before being computed. The optimization may be done by an AI agent based on neural nets, or a learning Mealy machine.

> Isn't it interesting what is more efficient: neural nets or a learning Mealy machine?

...Then I describe what is a learning Mealy machine. And then:

> Some interesting engineering (and scientific) problems are: - finding an input for a program that hacks it; - finding a machine code for a controller of a bipedal robot, which makes it able to work in factories;

https://x.com/NENENENENE10/status/2042733015281914108

That code would be used to calculate the output function and the transition function of the automaton. At first, as the automaton tries some action and receives a reaction, those functions are constructed accordingly in plain movs and cmps with jmps (suppose x86 ISA here). Then a whole machine code of all actions-reactions is optimized by arithmetic rules, loop rolling and unrolling, etc, so its size is reduced. That optimization may include some hypotheses about Don't Care values of the functions too, which will be corrected in future passes, if they turn out to be wrong... Imagine that code running on something like Thomas Sohmers' Neo processor or Sunway SW26010.

Yeah, it is completely different to Neural Nets. I posted it here because I feel the urge to popularize the idea : ) I am a dilettante in machine learning actually.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ucp0TTmvqOE&t=7358

A "brute-force" algorithm (an exhaustive search, in other words) is the easiest way to find an answer to almost any engineering problem. But it often must be optimized before being computed. The optimization may be done by an AI agent based on Neural Nets, or on a Learning Mealy Machine.

A Learning Mealy Machine is an finite automaton in which training data stream is remembered by constructing disjunctive normal forms of the output function of the automaton and the transition function between its states. Then those functions are optimized (compressed with losses by logic transformations like De Morgan's Laws, arithmetic rules, loop unrolling/rolling, etc.) into some generalized forms. That introduces random hypotheses into the automaton's functions, so it can be used in inference. The optimizer for automaton's functions may be another AI agent, or any heuristic algorithm, which you like...

Some interesting engineering (and scientific) problems are: - finding a machine code for a controller of a car, which makes it able to drive autonomously; - finding a machine code for a controller of a bipedal robot, which makes it able to work in warehouses and factories; - finding a CAD file, which describes the design of a spheromak working with a guiding center drift generator (hypothetical device, idk!); - finding a CAD file, which describes some kind of working Smoluchowski’s trapdoor (in some specific conditions, of course); - finding a file, which describes an automaton working in accordance to the data of a scientific experiment; - finding a file, which describes manufacturing steps to produce the first molecular nanofactory in the world.

Related work by Embecosm is here: superoptimization.org Though it seems people have superoptimized only tiny programs so far as you can see from the ICRL 2017 paper (App. D): arxiv.org/abs/1611.01787 And loops can also be rolled, not just unrolled. That kind of loop optimization seems to be absent here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loop_optimization

If you have any questions, ask me here: https://www.facebook.com/eugene.zavidovsky

[0] https://spectrum.ieee.org/view-from-the-valley/computing/har...

  tools have been overlooked almost completely

[0] "Dropbox pulls the plug on faster Python project", https://www.infoworld.com/article/3162800/open-source-tools/...

[1] "Simplifier AI", https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GSv89tiQmPDcnFEu4n4CqfaJcUJ...

But the main reason of their poor life is corrupted government which have been here for many years and which didn't give them opportunity to invest properly (not everyone can be a programmer, I admit). We had several hyper-inflation periods with banks going bankrupt, with too complicated legislation no one seriously followed, unfair privatization of former state property, policemen killing and robbing people, etc.

...€2.32 for 1 kg of potatoes in Norway?! I got a millionaire idea.

  So serious private-sector money could be raised.

Regarding the taxes. They are not that discriminating! Because in absolute values other workers may pay to the state even less than programmers. A good programmer may earn up to $3000 every month, so $3000·5% = $150 is what he gives to the state in taxes. An ordinary worker earns (official stat) $350 a month, so he gives only $350·40% = $140. I am not sure about 40% though...

We also have very low prices here too. For instance, potatoes cost only ¢15/kg, so if you are European or American you are welcome to spend your money here : )

  You don't have to pay 60% taxes to get these.

[0] Not like that story: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Inc._v._Samsung_Electron....

  In the Copenhagen area property prices are already growing faster than salaries.

  Take now... some hard-headed business man, who has no theories, but knows how to make money. Say to him:
  "Here is a little village; in ten years it will be a great city; in ten years the railroad will have taken
  the place of the stage coach, the electric light of the candle; it will abound with all the machinery and
  improvements that so enormously multiply the effective power of labor. Will in ten years, interest be any
  higher?" He will tell you, "No!" "Will the wages of the common labor be any higher...?" He will tell you,
  "No the wages of common labor will not be any higher..." "What, then, will be higher?" "Rent, the
  value of land. Go, get yourself a piece of ground, and hold possession." And if, under such circumstances, you
  take his advice, you need do nothing more. You may sit down and smoke your pipe; you may lie around like 
  the lazzaroni of Naples or the leperos of Mexico; you may go up in a balloon or down a hole in the ground;
  and without doing one stroke of work, without adding one iota of wealth to the community, in ten years you 
  will be rich! In the new city you may have a luxurious mansion, but among its public buildings will be 
  an almshouse.

https://voxukraine.org/en/land-prices-and-size-of-the-market...

  Cost of living skyrockets,
  and so does the cost of new production and hiring.

https://www.reddit.com/r/POLITIC/comments/7hqo7d/to_have_em_...

What do you think about the right for secession, if citizens were embezzled of their land by unfair privatization process?