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- Thanks to the creator of Vyquon for a lisp dialect which can actually be parsed through CIL http://github.com/overzeroe/Vyquon
Monthly Archives: October 2009
For the Autodidact
I recently stumbled upon several good (and free) books. All in pdf format: Linear Algebra (Jim Heffron) Statistics (Michael Lavine) A Field Guide to Genetic Programming (Riccardo Poli, William B Langdon, Nicholas Freitag McPhee) Neural Networks (Raul Rojas) Introduction to Computing (David Evans)
On Parallelism
Recently, I read an article describing someone’s experiments in parallel genetic programming, and so I decided to run my own. As has been mentioned, I am quite fond of functional languages; for me, easy parallelism is simply a pleasant bonus. I do think its worth noting, however, that while functional programming may be generally awesome, throwing [...]
Switching to WordPress
After the comment system on my former blog was decimated last week, I decided to switch over to WordPress. Despite recent security issues, this platform is far more reliable than a blogging framework that I wrote over a few weekends in Clojure. That’s not to say I’m abandoning the project, but its commenting system needs [...]
OSX Package Management