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rickmoynihan00:12:42

If you’ve ever wondered what is meant by Mccarthy’s Lisp being like Maxwells Equations for computer science; then this is perhaps the best introduction to why that might the case.

rickmoynihan00:12:31

though I’d start from lecture 1 🙂

yogidevbear08:12:10

Morning 👋

yogidevbear08:12:52

@rickmoynihan thanks for sharing that. Just watched the first part of that video. Very interesting

rickmoynihan09:12:27

yogidevbear: yeah it’s great… If you find meta interpreters and PLT interesting, then another great book (if expensive) book is Lisp in small pieces. Each chapter covers developing a new meta-interpreter with slightly different language semantics / optimisations etc and exploring the wider impact....

tgk09:12:17

@rickmoynihan: I quite enjoyed 34 minutes in

rickmoynihan09:12:58

tgk: Even Sussman makes mistakes 🙂

agile_geek17:12:22

We talk a lot in this community about Clojure "jumping the chasm" to avoid "heat death". Given this article perhaps we should all be submitting more talks to big conferences like OSCON? Just so no one really gets the idea Java 8 is actually comparable. https://opensource.com/article/16/12/yearbook-top-programming-trends-2016

yogidevbear18:12:23

I saw someone mention a new entirely Clojure based machine learning project a couple days ago (at least I think it was machine learning related). Anyone here know what that project might have been?

otfrom18:12:14

are you thinking about cortex from thinktopic? @gigasquid just did a blog post on using it

yogidevbear19:12:42

That's it. Thanks otfrom 👍

agile_geek21:12:07

My current client works with ThinkTopic so I expect to be seeing Cortex creeping into stuff at work soon enough

yogidevbear22:12:20

That sounds exciting

yogidevbear22:12:37

Maybe you can submit a talk around cortex for OSCON 😉

yogidevbear22:12:15

Or lambda days