Show HN: Deep Learning for Program Synthesis

One of the authors here -- would love to answer any questions about the work! :)

As much as I&#x27;d love a program to infer my intent to a specific language, I wouldn&#x27;t think it would help me as much. In my everyday work, most of the time I need to handle edge cases, which need specific instructions for specific scenarios. Once the logic is figured out, the writing part is just minimal.<p>Machine learning&#x2F;AI can learn from common cases to infer logic from intent. For such special cases, it may not be as common and need instructions. By then, I may as well write code by hand.<p>Edit: grammar

@suryabhupa How similar is this work to the Grammatical Inference field? There has been a lot of work over the years in specification inference which feels similar. Many of the studies in specification inference learn automata representations of object interactions. I know there have been other application grammatical inference in Software Engineering as well.

I would like a web API which when given training examples it generates the program in a given language such as Java

@suryabhupa is this going to be available to try out in Excel?

Do you ever mess with the system and feed it crazy to see what it does?<p>aardvark<p>gorilla<p>orangutan<p>elephant<p><i>select list and extend</i>