taneq SAYS "i don’t think that’s what ablation is about. It’s more like blowing parts off a bus until it ceases to be a bus."
Different people have different goals. You want some form of minimal bus and I want a Lotus 7. There's no guarantee either of us reach our goal.
Ablation is about disassembling something randomly, whether little by little or on an arbitrary scale until [SOMETHING INTERESTING OR DESIRABLE HAPPENS].
Ablation is laughable but sometimes useful. It is also easy, mostly brainless, NOT guaranteed to provide any useful information (so you've an excuse for the wasted resources), and occasionally provides insight. It's a good tool for software engineers who have no (or seek no) understanding of their system, so I think of ablation as a "last resort" solutions (e.g., another being to randomly modify code until it "works") that I disdain.
But I'm old so I'm probably wrong! Burn those CPU towers down, boys and girls!
Different people have different goals. You want some form of minimal bus and I want a Lotus 7. There's no guarantee either of us reach our goal.
Ablation is about disassembling something randomly, whether little by little or on an arbitrary scale until [SOMETHING INTERESTING OR DESIRABLE HAPPENS].
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ablation_(artificial_intellige...
Ablation is laughable but sometimes useful. It is also easy, mostly brainless, NOT guaranteed to provide any useful information (so you've an excuse for the wasted resources), and occasionally provides insight. It's a good tool for software engineers who have no (or seek no) understanding of their system, so I think of ablation as a "last resort" solutions (e.g., another being to randomly modify code until it "works") that I disdain.
But I'm old so I'm probably wrong! Burn those CPU towers down, boys and girls!