Then, here, this refers to change the primary support-goal of the engine. Blocks vs Polygons is just one example of such a goal, Data structure used throughout all existing code is another.
You can't compile human language to math. Also programming code is not pure math.
If humanity will have intepreter to optimize code, then humanity will also have technology to build AI that will programm by itself. Because You need to exactly know what are You going to programm to optimize it well. Optimizing is mainly implementing things in creative way.
Everything that a computer can execute is math. Loops are easy to write but several different math operations (address pointer, branche's-jump-lengths, ...)
Maybe you can program creativity. I got many ideas in the past years when I read and thought about this topic.
The problem is not syntax. When making any kind of software that demands a lot of processing (like starmade does), you want the code to be optimised. If the guys writing it up have more knowledge of Java than of C#, it's not up to anyone to tell them "oh, just switch, it'll be better". Over the years you learn a lot of oddities of the language you code in, neat tricks that you can do, obscure functions etc. All this can be used to squeeze every last drop of speed out of the code. It's not hard to make that switch if you're a beginner trying to get into a company, or if you're writing code for kicks. But once you actually know how to program in a language (i.e. years of experience), you don't just switch it just like that in the middle of an important project.
YES, WHY? I'd even extend that to programmers. I'm an academic programmer, I abhor Java for its origins, I'm fully behind the FOSSM, I'd love for the game to be Libre or programmed on a Libre tool. But all of that is irrelevant, because I'm not the one programming this game. I'm a player, if Schine invites me to join them, I might discuss that with them (probably wouldn't), otherwise it's their business—even literally. Just because it's an open alpha and the devs reach out to the community often, it doesn't mean that the community should be offering uninvited opinion on these types of things.
Processor is not about performing math. He can perform math but He is mainly about perforfming logic operations. How would u describe rounding numbers using just simple mathematicall operations (+, -, /, *)? Logic circuits are even lower level of thinking than math.
I'm not saying it's not. In fact I think that during next 50 years most of workers will be replaced with AI. There are already neural networks that can recognize what's on pictures showed to them and describe it with human language.
You can't make set of rules for AI without tons of testing. More testing than u can think at first.
You can't make anything that will be able to hold human minds accidentally.
If you just have integers, divide by 2 and then multiply by 2 (bit-shifting) to cut 1 binary digit.
We have already tested everything. Inside the human brain for even more than 10'000 years.
Not out of nothing.
How do You check if You have integer? Just write a mathematical function with one variable that solves problem of rounding up numbers.
Seriously? Do we have brain bugtracker? jk
You would need to use specific style language to avoid errors where all words are clear and don't have double meaning.
We will learn how to make it from scratch. One human learns this, another human can learn that. And one human reads what the others have done and makes a compilation of all of it to check if it is plausible and explains everything, given the minimum required information about the issue you are facing.
God is almighty or not - dependent on religion.
I have everything setup right, Java, SM, my drivers. OS. Right across the board, yet still with a GTX 970, overclocked i53570k, 8GB ram 64 bit Windows, decent PSU and this game still runs like crap when you have several ships on screen, I cannot imagine how those with 2gb of ram and a 32bit OS and Intel HD graphics can stand playing at 10fps.
Schema started with blocks and will continue it with sectors and systems.
Oh I believe that we will learn how to make AI, just not by reading historical resources about people who lived until now. :p
Defining things is equally hard to constructing complex sentencens.
It is not just god.
You don't need to count uncertainty. You will just need to learn specific style of speaking to don't speak uncertainly.
What you're experiencing isn't the norm, especially not with your computer specs. For example, Crusade has a similar machine and can run the game no problem, even around very large ships (1km+ lenght). He even turned on supersampling (4k) and could still get 60+ fps looking at my 1.3km long ship.
"favouring combat far too much and wasting 8/24 bits to HP - it is a build game!"
No need to worry.
