Exactly, nothing more to say
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On 21 Jul 2017, at 22:14, Matthew Parker <dimensional.dba@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Actually if you go to the Merriam Webster's website you will find the game of
Go under the noun section on the page for the word go.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/go
Daniel's reference to Go relates to the Game of go being the hardest Game for
AI to overcome, but was overcome last year by Google.
http://fortune.com/2016/03/12/googles-go-computer-vs-human/
"Being Smart" in any interpretation of the phrase doesn't guarantee you will
solve a problem in the most efficient or correct way. You can solve a problem
for the moment and everyone is happy and you congratulate yourself as "being
smart", but your solution fails a year later as some variable changes like
size of the data 6 months down the road.
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I am not sure that "skills in playing Go" are synonymous with "being smart".
If you check the dictionary, you will not find the game of Go being mentioned
anywhere:
http://www.dictionary.com/browse/smart?s=t
And when I was a DBA, I knew my data really well and was frequently asked to
speed up a piece of SQL code. With Oracle, I was mostly successful. With
Postgres, not so much, because I was lacking the means to do so. Also, the
premise that "hints are optimizer bugs" is dead wrong. Hints are means to
override the optimizer. All other major databases have them, for a reason. So
does Postgres. Despite its developer community.
Regards
On Fri, 21 Jul 2017 19:46:56 +0200 (CEST)
Daniel Westermann <daniel.westermann@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"Also, I consider myself smarter than any
program, including the Postgres planner"
Impressive, maybe you should learn Go and prove that 😉
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