From: Peter Axon on
Tamas K Papp <tkpapp(a)gmail.com> writes:

> On Wed, 02 Jun 2010 10:00:58 -0700, Thomas A. Russ wrote:
>
>> I think that a nice example project involves working on and extending a
>> symbolic mathematics solver. In particular that is nice because it
>> exploits a number of features of lisp that make it a whole lot simpler
>> to do in lisp than in other languages.
>
> I think that is a very good suggestion, if the OP is mathematically
> inclined. A related area which I found interesting is automatic
> differentiation: Fatemans's AD paper (http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/
> ~fateman/papers/overload-AD.pdf) is an excellent into into that, and also
> to nice CL techniques.

Thanks for the suggestions. Unfortunatly I am not very mathematically
bright. I would like to be but really struggled with it through
school.
--
Peter
From: "Antti "Andy" Ylikoski" on
2.6.2010 13:18, Peter Axon kirjoitti:
> Thanks everyone for the helpful thoughts. The Sudoku solver idea sounds
> good. Also the AI book sounds good to. I am interested in implementing
> expert systems and such.
>
> Thanks again. I look forward to getting into a project this weekend.

Moreover, get the book

The Elements of Artificial Intelligence Using Common Lisp
Steven L. Tanimoto
ISBN 0-7167-8269-3
Computer Science Press, New York - Oxford


regards, Antti J. Ylikoski
Helsinki, Finland, the E.U.