New Lisp-Stat Release

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Post by Lisp-Stat » Thu, Jul 21, 2022, 4:35 AM UTC

New Lisp-Stat Release
lisp-stat.dev

Re: New Lisp-Stat Release

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Post by Lisp-Stat » Thu, Jul 21, 2022, 4:35 AM UTC

Third major refactoring. Plotting significantly upgraded.

Re: New Lisp-Stat Release

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Post by peatmoss » Thu, Jul 21, 2022, 4:43 AM UTC

Impressive release. I love the pragmatic approach of targeting Vega-Lite to get powerful plotting out of the gates.

Re: New Lisp-Stat Release

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Post by brabel » Thu, Jul 21, 2022, 6:32 AM UTC

There's a lot of examples of plots made with lisp-stat at https://lisp-stat.dev/docs/examples/plotting/.

Looks really nice, I'll be using this next time I need charts! I had been using a Rust crate which was really hard to use and plots were uglier than this library's.

Re: New Lisp-Stat Release

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Post by auvi » Thu, Jul 21, 2022, 7:09 AM UTC

Re: New Lisp-Stat Release

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Post by Lisp-Stat » Thu, Jul 21, 2022, 8:09 AM UTC

auvi wrote: post #5

The bottom of the page says "© 2022 Symbolics Pte". Any relations with the Symbolics of the Lisp Machine fame?

No relation. The name was just used because we thought it would be cool to try and revive the spirit of the old company, and the name is long dead.

Re: New Lisp-Stat Release

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Post by _ofdw » Thu, Jul 21, 2022, 8:20 AM UTC

I've been using lisp-stat in production as part of an algorithmic trading application I wrote. It's been very solid, and though the plotting is (perhaps was, in light of this new release) kinda unwieldy, I really enjoyed using it. Excited to check out the newest release.

Re: New Lisp-Stat Release

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Post by hatmatrix » Thu, Jul 21, 2022, 8:25 AM UTC

Can this compete with the momentum/performance of Julia?

I'd be stoked if this became widely adopted but community size seems to be a huge determinant of success with these types of languages.

Re: New Lisp-Stat Release

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Post by medo-bear » Thu, Jul 21, 2022, 8:34 AM UTC

hatmatrix wrote: post #8

Can this compete with the momentum/performance of Julia? I'd be stoked if this became widely adopted but community size seems to be a huge determinant of success with these types of languages.

the rally call of lisps is to get a lot done with less, so it is definitely possible that it can compete in some sense. also common lisp packages such as these can cater to the programmer-first type of data scientist by allowing greater (interactive) tinkering with the underlying code

Re: New Lisp-Stat Release

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Post by sieste » Thu, Jul 21, 2022, 8:52 AM UTC

medo-bear wrote: post #9

hatmatrix wrote: post #8

Can this compete with the momentum/performance of Julia? I'd be stoked if this became widely adopted but community size seems to be a huge determinant of success with these types of languages.

the rally call of lisps is to get a lot done with less, so it is definitely possible that it can compete in some sense. also common lisp packages such as these can cater to the programmer-first type of data scientist by allowing greater (interactive) tinkering with the underlying code

>> cater to the programmer-first type of data scientist

Exactly. Especially those who want to dabble with lisp by playing with familiar problems and applications. I find it much more instructive to play with linear regression code in a new language than with, say, a game development engine, because I have a pretty good idea about the strengths and quirks of `lm` in R.