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School you? Sounds like someone mentioned how awesome a Lisp is. Ironically he said to someone who has done a bit of Lisp before. There ain't much to the OP story, or at least he hasn't divulged that much, but the song he wrote is pretty cool.
Op is Peter Norvig, someone who any self respecting lisper should have heard of.
Peter tech-reviewed the second edition of my Java AI book and made the comment that Java was half as good as Common Lisp for AI and that was probably good enough (we had both written Common Lisp books). He then went to Google and I had lunch with him; I was surprised that he was using Python. I like his poem in the article! A little off topic, but I retired (that is a bit of a joke) and at the age of 69, this year I…
Peter tech-reviewed the second edition of my Java AI book and made the comment that Java was half as good as Common Lisp for AI and that was probably good enough (we had both written Common Lisp books). He then went to Google and I had lunch with him; I was surprised that he was using Python. I like his poem in the article! A little off topic, but I retired (that is a bit of a joke) and at the age of 69, this year I…
You may also enjoy: https://github.com/hylang/hy
I remember reading something someplace that was something like ... the problem with being old and full of wisdom is it's hard to share that wisdom with the people that need it most without sounding like an old condescending jerk. Plus, they won't listen anyways. The best you can hope for is that when they are old and full of wisdom they'll remember you and think "hey that old guy was right" . I know when I was 25 I w…
A while ago I was arguing with someone online about the best way to structure a matrix library. Then around four years later I realized he was completely right and I just didn't know enough to realize why. I'm sure this is a universal experience.
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You may also enjoy: https://github.com/hylang/hy
I wrote a short book on Hy last year. A very cool language and just about perfect for using TensorFlow (or PyTorch) in a Lisp language. I am working on a second edition, adding examples converted from my recent work using Common Lisp.
Is Peter waving or drowning? If a pair is consed in a forest, and no one observes it, did it really happen?
Peter tech-reviewed the second edition of my Java AI book and made the comment that Java was half as good as Common Lisp for AI and that was probably good enough (we had both written Common Lisp books). He then went to Google and I had lunch with him; I was surprised that he was using Python. I like his poem in the article! A little off topic, but I retired (that is a bit of a joke) and at the age of 69, this year I…
Also have you heard of Janet* ? what are your thoughts on such an approach ?
Peter tech-reviewed the second edition of my Java AI book and made the comment that Java was half as good as Common Lisp for AI and that was probably good enough (we had both written Common Lisp books). He then went to Google and I had lunch with him; I was surprised that he was using Python. I like his poem in the article! A little off topic, but I retired (that is a bit of a joke) and at the age of 69, this year I…
Out of curiosity, what are your thoughts on Clojure ? Also have you heard of Janet* ? what are your thoughts on such an approach ? * https://janet-lang.org
I had not heard of Janet, thanks for the link.