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Lisp is only a general idea about syntax and macros. If you want numerical computations you want a big library like blas, and the problem is about efficient memory allocation, cach…

Just a little nickpick, reading the first lines, I would prefer the author to explain the Pythagorean theorem in R^n like this (is a very simple proof) v . v = |v|^2, and u and v a…

Brian Blais's free book doesn't contain any reference to the Poisson Distribution. For ML Hastie and Tibshirani ISLR is very good but is more for applications of machine learning: …

Genes don't encode all the necessary information for growing up. There are time windows for activation of high level functions. (Cats get blind if their time window for visual lear…

The next step is to build a chatbot to replace the professor at teaching. If someone is not going to enjoy the fruits why are you going to supply the knowledge base for a chatbot t…

My first impression with the title was wrong, I thought about something related to Lisp and Y Combinator.

Planned obsolescence = obsolescencia planeada in Spanish, designing purposely a product that won't last to get money through client's pockets. Examples with ink for printers was on…

For people like me that are used to only reading the comments: You can read the book online, code is in ruby, example: tabu search for the traveling salesman problem. I should sugg…

automation: go to this page, fill in the form, push submit, receive the result, process the result, send the processed result to another program for further analysis, finally emit …

After a glimpse, I should say that if the page needs javascript then use selenium else you use this. So this is like selenium without javascript. Am I right?

If there is a Math's Heaven with the Book in it, I hope he joins the chorus. (*) The Book as the place were the greatest theorems and proofs are located, P. Erdos, exposed in Noga …