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he must be excited. until google puts out non-trivial problem sets and offers non-trivial prizes i'll save my upvotes and cycles.
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Can't believe this Reddit quality comment is getting any upvotes. Google AI Challenge is "Yet Another Contest"? Though you may not be surprised, he is, http://quotenil.com/Planet-Wars-Post-Mortem.html/ .
The point is that he won because he's a great programmer, not because he used Lisp.
Of course the program could be rewritten into qbasic. It is getting your ideas and thoughts into a form that is not a compromise to the language which matters.
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The point is that he won because he's a great programmer, not because he used Lisp.
It's far from clear which way the causality runs.
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It's far from clear which way the causality runs.
Well, the 33 lisp entrants don't appear to hold the top 33 spots: http://ai-contest.com/language_profile.php?lang=Lisp
(Or, rather, that language alone doesn't guarantee success, but that would be too rational and boring for an online forum).
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Can't believe this Reddit quality comment is getting any upvotes. Google AI Challenge is "Yet Another Contest"? Though you may not be surprised, he is, http://quotenil.com/Planet-Wars-Post-Mortem.html/ .
The point is that he won because he's a great programmer, not because he used Lisp.
Given that people have argued that the absence of Lisp winners from such competitions is evidence against Lisp's greatness (I'm going by memory here and don't have time to dredge up the record), it seems relevant to point out when it does happen.
Bocsimako is the proof that Lisp is best for AI algorithms Cargo cultism at its finest
Ugh. Cargo cultism? The full quote is: After seeing Gábor’s performance, many participants commented that they would be taking a new look at the 50 year old language. “Bocsimako is the proof that Lisp is best for AI algorithms,” quipped one player. one player.
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Well, the 33 lisp entrants don't appear to hold the top 33 spots: http://ai-contest.com/language_profile.php?lang=Lisp
So more than a fifth of the lisp entries are in the bottom twentyfifth of the competition. So you could also use the contest results to argue that lisp is five times worse for AI than the average language. (Or, rather, that language alone doesn't guarantee success, but that would be too rational and boring for an online forum).
Just because computers obey the law of excluded middle does not mean we should.
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The point is that he won because he's a great programmer, not because he used Lisp.
The point the guy himself makes is that lisp allows him to be a great programmer. Of course the program could be rewritten into qbasic. It is getting your ideas and thoughts into a form that is not a compromise to the language which matters.
Hmm .. maybe I should consider settling in Hungary.
Not a bad article, but did you have to make the title a Lisp promotion fest?
This very short article mentions the winner's views, as he sees it, on the suitability of Lisp (used by 0.7% of the contestants, surely interesting) for the job. Half the article never even mentions Lisp. And this amounts to a 'promotion fest'?