C++ Complaints While Driving a Neural Network Car

I am uncomfortable with C++ because I don’t know how my code maps precisely to machine code. This is why I naturally prefer C to deploy my pile of linear algebra whose parameters are found by billion-dimensional stochastic optimisation to drive my car. Transformers are replacing C heuristics for post-processing of the vision NN’s “giant bag of points”. [Side note: I hate the bloated mess that is modern C++, but love simple C, as you know what it will compile to in terms of actual CPU operations.]

The meme contrasts distrust of C++ abstractions with an absurdly complex C-based system using massive stochastic optimization and neural networks to drive a car. The punchline is that someone worried about precise machine-code behavior prefers C while relying on Transformers and billion-dimensional mathematics for autonomous driving. It is used as a sarcastic reaction to programmers who criticize high-level abstractions while working on systems that are vastly more complicated. EN: The meme contrasts distrust of C++ abstractions with an absurdly complex C-based system using massive stochastic optimization and neural networks to drive a car. The punchline is that someone worried about precise machine-code behavior prefers C while relying on Transformers and billion-dimensional mathematics for autonomous driving. It is used as a sarcastic reaction to programmers who criticize high-level abstractions while working on systems that are vastly more complicated.

• @ithueti / 6514 2022-06-03