> We don't really know how to program yet, or how to manage our programs. We don't really know what we want to say or how to say it. We don't have good computer languages for expressing what we want to computer to do. We don't know how to think about programming.
I think this is still true today. Software is only just starting and there is a lot of room to find better ways of doing things.
I think the reason writing a compiler is easy today is the theory I learned in compilers class. How to do context free grammars, the concept of abstract syntax trees, the pattern of writing a recursive descent parser and having a lexer that only looks one symbol ahead and has a peek function. On top of that we have experience with lots of languages and type systems to draw from when constructing a new one.
I was just doing some research and apparently all of this stuff was invented around the late 60s and so in the 70s it was still new and by the 90s it was standard practice. The dragon book came out in 1986 and spelled it all out in one place.
Today we have the benefit of knowing the right ideas to use from the start and confidence that if you follow the formula it will all work out.
There's also the major problem of people expecting Google to be right when it tells them something but OpenAI had no starting reputation so it was okay to say "be aware it might be wrong sometimes"
Presumably the missile needs GPS to hit the target so if you jam right when the missile is coming in the missile will miss so you can't really jam the warning
Also if you broadcast noise when your missile is about to hit then your own jamming signal acts as an early warning as well, although I guess it wouldn't provide location.
Now the flaps don't melt! The tiles don't fall off!
It's a major overhaul of the design they've been working on for a long time. There was talk of v3 fixing the problems in early v2 test flights. The booster is v3 as well which presumably is why they had some problems. I believe this is also the first time they flew the v3 engines with the plumbing fully integrated in a single piece housing they 3D printed.
I only read the abstract but I got the impression that their solution to this is they have both. They translate all the data as if it was code and if it gets called into they use the translation where if it gets read as memory they use the original.
Edit I found this in the paper
> Elevator sidesteps the code-versus-data determination altogether through an application of superset disassembly [6]: we simultaneously interpret every executable byte offset in the original binary as (i) data and (ii) the start of a potential instruction sequence beginning at that offset, and we build the superset control flow graph from every one of the resulting candidate decodes. Every potential target of indirect jumps, callbacks, or other runtime dispatch mechanisms that
cannot be statically analyzed therefore has a corresponding landing point in the rewritten binary. These targets are resolved at runtime through a lookup table from original instruction addresses to translated code addresses that we embed in the final binary.
Yes but the lords are not satisfied with this. They demand the 10x productivity they sold to investors. If you do it this way you will not produce 10x the code.