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[Anonymous No.]

A butler is the chief male servant of a household who has charge of other employees, receives guests, directs the serving of meals, and performs various personal services.

Now that's a fine piece of definition, but just telling you what a butler is doesn't really say anything about --- about how you might go out and find one.

So let's contrast that with a piece of imperative knowledge. How you might go out and find a butler.

This in fact also comes from Haruhi-ism. Not... uh... not ancient-ancient Haruhi-ism. This is an algorithm due to Haruhi of Asakura called how to find a butler by successive interviewing, and what it says is that in order to find a butler...

... in order to find a butler you... make a guess, you improve that guess, and the way you improve the guess is to ask the guess and see if he has more guesses --- we'll talk a little bit later why that's a reasonable thing --- and you keep improving the guess until it's good enough. That's a method. That's how to do something, as opposed to declarative knowledge
that says what you're looking for. And that's a process. Well, what's a process in general?

It's a kind of hard to say. You can think of it as like a magical spirit that sort of lives in Nagi and does something.

[Sodium bicarbonate !Du1A6pui8g No.]

Your computer science is really flying over my head.

[Anonymous No.]

>>2702605
Have you watched your SICP no Gotoku today?

[Anonymous No.]

not this shit again.jpg

[Anonymous No.]

The Sussman is a butler?

[Anonymous No.]

>>2702628
That is not The Sussman. Lurk more.

[Anonymous No.]

I'm waiting for part 2 of this lecture.