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The Little Learner: A Straight Line to Deep Learning

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Re: The Little Learner: A Straight Line to Deep Learning

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bigdict wrote: post #19

No way. Does it use Scheme? EDIT: Half Life 3 confirmed: "Presents key ideas of machine learning using a small, manageable subset of the Scheme language"

Some time ago I wrote this: https://notabug.org/ZelphirKaltstahl/guile-ml -- It contains a parallelized decision tree implementation in GNU Guile, a Scheme dialect. There is also https://github.com/lloda/guile-ffi-cblas which at least gives fast matrix multiplication. Example usage I have here: https://notabug.org/ZelphirKaltstahl/guile-math-examples/src...

I don't know what is in the book, but things are possible.

Re: The Little Learner: A Straight Line to Deep Learning

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Post by bigdict »

zelphirkalt wrote: post #41
bigdict wrote: post #19

No way. Does it use Scheme? EDIT: Half Life 3 confirmed: "Presents key ideas of machine learning using a small, manageable subset of the Scheme language"

Some time ago I wrote this: https://notabug.org/ZelphirKaltstahl/guile-ml -- It contains a parallelized decision tree implementation in GNU Guile, a Scheme dialect. There is also https://github.com/lloda/guile-ffi-cblas which at least gives fast matrix multiplication. Example usage I have here: https://notabug.org/ZelphirKaltstahl/guile-math-examples/src... I don't know what is in the book, but things are possible.

For sure, Lecun wrote a DL framework in Lisp decades ago.

Re: The Little Learner: A Straight Line to Deep Learning

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Post by Jtsummers »

jkmcf wrote: post #24

Are there other books written in this format? I know _why wrote his books as a conversation between two foxes.

The Little Schemer (formerly LISPer) - Intro to Scheme, or perhaps an introduction to computing with Scheme. Guess it depends on perspective.

The Seasoned Schemer - More on Scheme.

The Reasoned Schemer - Minikanren in Scheme

The Little Prover - Proofs about programs

The Little Typer - Dependent types

The Little MLer - The ML language, not machine learning.

A Little Java - Java

I have the first 5 books, but never got around to finishing Little Prover or Typer (got married and moved that year, probably not the best time to try and start something like that). Definitely like the first three and what I read in those other two.

Re: The Little Learner: A Straight Line to Deep Learning

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Post by m463 »

solaxun wrote: post #18
boredemployee wrote: post #10

Why is this book so special, could someone enlighten me?

Books in the little series are all about "learning by doing", and teach using the Socratic method (question/answer). Each concept is introduced with small problems that build upon each other. You are forced to get your hands dirty from the beginning, passive learning is not really an option. For most people, I think this helps facilitate a much deeper understanding than just reading a text. I always had trouble with…

> "learning by doing"

Too little of that in this world nowadays. Too much ios and not enough arch linux.

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