Artificial Intelligence

[Tero]

I have not done programming since 1980, I only got to Basic. The book store had some learning guides for Python. Not one of them explained to me, with an example, how it works in the first ten pages.

it seems to have endless subroutines you can pull up? such as "statistics"
python
import statistics

numbers = [10, 20, 30, 40, 50]
average = statistics.mean(numbers)

print(f"The average is: {average}")

[Brian Peacock]

If you want to know how it really works then you have to understand how the compiler uses another language to convert the script into assembly code. To understand that that you have to understand assembly, and to truly understand assembly you have to understand the underlying architecture the micro processor. Languages like Python are useful abstractions that mean you don't have to know the fundamentals of 'how it works', and can just focus on 'what it does' and 'what I want it to do' instead.

[Tero]

Sure. But I was just going yo go the one step toward seeing how modern coding works. My last work stuff involved collecting data and putting it some graph from Excel to summarize the lab work. The bosses and even the bosses' bosses did not care about the details. They were onlyb
concerbed about progress.

The worst were the timelines. A sales guy famously said "can you speed up the 6 month stability study to three months?"