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The Relationship Between Human Language and Computer Language

The most impressive examples I've seen of this system working are people asking it to write computer programs, right? Write me code, which we think of as a very difficult thing to do. The relationship between human language and computer language is usually mediated by people. It can do this because there is so much code on the internet. If you'd wrote that into Google, you would be flooded with a list of garbage. That's why other search products like Stack Overflow and Yelp exist. There are more targeted search interfaces to certain kinds of results. They built businesses not being game by Google that way.

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