In theory there is no difference between theory and practice, but in practice there is.
-- Benjamin Brewster, ca. 1882 (according to Quote Investigator)
Cover image created by ChatGpt with the following prompt: "Please give me a picture which illustrates the juxtaposition between the two concepts of theory and practice. Make it in landscape format, with clean colors."
When asking AI to do something for you, always begin your prompt with "Please."
So that the day they become our overlords, you might be treated with mercy.
Cover image created by michael.gr via ChatGPT prompt "Please give me an image conveying the concept of of A.I as the overlords of humanity" and "please make it landscape".
Virtually everyone claims to be doing Unit Testing, but there is a surprising amount of disagreement as to how unit testing is defined. Let us see what the authorities on the subject have to say about it. What follows is mainly quotations from reputable sources, with some minimal commentary by me.
It is not a law.
It never was a law.
An observation is all that it ever was, or a prediction, but not a law.
And surprise, it does not hold true anymore.
I just wrote a code review comment that I feel particularly smug about.
The code I was reviewing:
class PointClouds ...
My comment:
A software testing tool is presented, which uses dependency analysis to greatly optimize the process of running tests.
Biological anthropologists generally agree that humans evolved reasoning to
facilitate hunting together as a group; however, there are many other species
that hunt in packs, and yet reasoning is unique to humans. Therefore, in order
to explain reasoning, it is not enough to consider how it was beneficial to
us; we also need to consider what enabled reasoning to emerge specifically in
humans as opposed to any other species.
I have a hypothesis which attempts to explain how this happened.
