Lisp was invented to produce AI. Machine learning is a better way to produce AI. So in a sense, Machine learning takes the needs for Lisp (in AI) away.
Lisp was invented by the guy who coined the term AI, not for AI. Its popularity in AI circles in the past stems from a) being developed by the same groups of people and b) being well-suited for symbolic computation; something that many mainstream langauges suck about to this day, even though it's nothing AI-specific.
ML takes the needs for Lisp more-less in the same way Entity-Component-System architecture takes the needs for C++ and C# programmers...
> A programming system called LISP (for LISt Processor) has been developed for the IBM 704 computer by the Artificial Intelligence group at M.I.T. The system was designed to facilitate experiments with a proposed system called the Advice Taker, whereby a machine could be instructed to handle declarative as well as imperative sentences and could exhibit ``common sense'' in carrying out its instructions. The original proposal [1] for the Advice Taker was made in November 1958. The main requirement was a programming system for manipulating expressions representing formalized declarative and imperative sentences so that the Advice Taker system could make deductions.
So it was designed for the 'Advice Talker'. The AI domains were natural language processing and common sense reasoning.
Yes, but GPUs should only be consider for acceleration when there is insufficient local CPU power to accomplish something valuable. Otherwise, it's like buying a Ferrari to get groceries.
Hello there, I think Singapore is hot! (Pun intended)
Location: Guangzhou China and/or Vancouver, Canada (Flying man)
Willing to relocate: Yes
Technologies: Interested in: Clojure, ClojureScript, Core Java, Reagent/OM, Machine Learning.
I personally love functional programming style. But JVM is also awesome. So ... Clojure!
Soundcloud is so important for the programmer community that it is unthinkable that it will just disappear. All those background music I enjoy as I code, all those chip-tunes, livecoding musics etc. I hope they open some donation so that I can help.
I've never personally gotten into SoundCloud but I fill a similar void using Spotify. They have a constantly evolving set of background music playlist under "Browse" > "Genres & Moods" > "Focus".
Why is this bad? Just GIT commit every time you change your super-awesome source code and revert to whatever version you like when things go wrong. Or just tell people: This is not a bug, it's a feature.
