My bad, I misunderstood the intent behind this project (and I mixed it up in my mind with Barliman, elsewhere on HN at the time).
This searches through a list of predefined (built-in?) functions and finds one that can match the given inputs and outputs. That sounds pretty cool and rather handy and although it's a form of machine learning (or function approximation in any case) it's not trying to sell itself off as anything it isn't, which was my initial concern. My bad for overreacting.
This searches through a list of predefined (built-in?) functions and finds one that can match the given inputs and outputs. That sounds pretty cool and rather handy and although it's a form of machine learning (or function approximation in any case) it's not trying to sell itself off as anything it isn't, which was my initial concern. My bad for overreacting.