Category Archives: Clojure

Analyzing Word Frequencies with Clojure, Enlive and Incanter

By Ethan | Published: March 8, 2010
I’ve long been interested in getting a better feel for Incanter, a statistical computing and graphical environment for Clojure. So gifted with the fleeting favors of my muse (otherwise known as free time), I thought I’d put together a small library — although it’s not quite a library, yet — for analyzing word-use patterns on blogs and webpages. To do [...]
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Gajure Now on Clojars

By Ethan | Published: February 22, 2010
Gajure, my small genetic algorithm framework, is now up on Clojars. Hopefully, this should make it much more convenient to use in a real project. I also added Leiningen support, and if you use Clojure with any frequency, I’d recommend checking that out.
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Clojure :pre and :post

By Ethan | Published: December 23, 2009
Courtesy of Hacker News, this morning I stumbled upon a blog post mentioning :pre and :post assertions, a new feature in version 1.1 of Clojure. Given the rather messy nature of several functions in Gajure (my toy genetic algorithm framework), it seemed to me that I had an ideal opportunity to make use of this [...]
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On Parallelism

By Ethan | Published: October 7, 2009
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 [...]
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A Genetic Algorithm Framework in Clojure

By Ethan | Published: September 3, 2009
functional languages. They are wonderfully powerful, and can easily abstract away a basic algorithm that one might apply to many kinds of problems. With this in mind, I decided to build a framework for constructing genetic algorithms in Clojure.
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