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Interesting survey on Clojure/Lisp use dropping off in data science (down 77% between 2013-2012). http://www.kdnuggets.com/2013/08/languages-for-analytics-data-mining-data-science.html Firstly, lumping Clojure and general Lisps together may have slanted things but either way doesn’t make good reading.
Secondly, this is fairly old data. Clojure eco system has moved on (esp. tooling) so would be interesting to see where it is now.
I wonder if it’s the ‘barrier to entry’ of having to learn Lisp semantics and/or FP. Although ‘R’ users and data scientists in general should be comfortable with functions?!
the important thing to realize I guess is that there are not enough people doing stats / experimenting with stats routinely enough to take any of them seriously heh
I suspect that when ‘computer science’ biased data scientists look at Clojure they would find it interesting. Or ‘data wranglers’ which is probably how I describe my career!
agile_geek: I suspect that the data analysis tools in Clojure don't get the amount of love that scipy/torch etc do
agile_geek: Certainly I don't see a lot of people talking about them on the ML, although maybe there are specific MLs I don't subscribe to
QQ, has anybody heard of or tried to work thirty hour weeks instead of the regular fourty?
Yeah, but you're not allowed to clock out without staying for the 40 hours, at least that's what I see in the working field of Germany
But I think the thirty hour work week is the way of the future and am interested in how people managed to convince management as well as how it worked out for them
4 day work week is a lot better than 5 day.. an extra 2 hours of work each day is hardly felt especially if you commute anyway and it typically helps with the commute
I notice in 8 hour days management always takes their full hour even hour .15 lunches and so you only have 5.30 hours (first half hour of each day is booting computer, 15 minutes coming down from lunch, last half hour is shooting sh*t)
my experience with Clojure at the workplace in my area is that it is in the "trying to convince the boss" phase
most of the startups here use Python anyway so they don't see the advantage of adding the JVM to their stack
I went to a meetup for php (don’t ask.. everyone threw php under the bus) and every single person that showed up was employed doing python
there are some people doing small experiments in Clojure in startups, but most of the success stories I hear come, surprisingly, from big banks and Enterprise® business
mostly, they already have the JVM as their core platform so it doesn't sound that scary to upper management
also some of them use Spark so they are already using Scala and are used to functional programs
I haven't been to meetups in a long time, so all this info comes from word to mouth speaking with CTO's at small startups and stuff