Which is the best implementation of LISP family of languages for real world programming ?
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From: Pascal J. Bourguignon on 12 Jun 2010 15:57 George Neuner <gneuner2(a)comcast.net> writes: > On Sat, 12 Jun 2010 18:57:08 +0300, "Antti \"Andy\" Ylikoski" > <antti.ylikoski(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >>OT: (very Off Topic.............) >>I would not trust dolphins to take care of my investments. > > Why not? Remember the chimpanzee that picked stocks and beat many > professional fund managers? > http://www.marketwatch.com/story/dart-throwing-chimp-still-making-monkey-of-internet-funds?pagenumber=2 > > > The average dolphin's brain is bigger than the average human's (and > far bigger than a chimpanzee's). Dolphin investment strategies might > look fishy to us but dolphins have a unique point of view on important > industries such as transportation, telecommunications, construction, > tourism, energy exploration, food production, etc. > > I'd trust a dolphin over a Wall Street fund manager any day. Me too. At least, the dolphin wouldn't be a former SEC president, and would have no use for our painfully spared dollars. -- __Pascal Bourguignon__ http://www.informatimago.com/
From: Pascal J. Bourguignon on 14 Jun 2010 14:55
"Antti \"Andy\" Ylikoski" <antti.ylikoski(a)gmail.com> writes: > 12.6.2010 22:54, Pascal J. Bourguignon kirjoitti: >> bolega<gnuist006(a)gmail.com> writes: >>> >>>> [PAIP] >>> >>> Is there anything in this old norvig book that makes it worth >>> pursuing as a text ? >> >> Yes. >> > > I agree with his criticism that the book is "old", mine stems from the > year 1992. That's not "old". An old book is one that is falling in powder when you're reading it. Eg. the Quran manuscripts are "old". But any book since Gutenberg's invention is not old. For a book, that is. > I bought and studied the Russell-Norvig books on "Artificial > Intelligence: A Modern Approach", ie. the 1th, 2nd (and in the future > the 3rd edition), in order to learn modern AI theory. They have > discontinued the 3rd edition but I succeeded in ordering a copy > anyway. I have read the 1st and the 2nd editions, but I have not yet > received by mail the 3rd edition. > > But I only got the PAIP book to learn Common LISP, not in order to > study modern AI. This is why I'm discussing this in the > new:comp.lang.LISP newsgroup. > > Any good modern LISP textbooks out there? > > Can anyone point to me any other good modern textbooks on AI than the > 3rd edition of the Russell-Norvig book? (Which is reputable.) If we said it is the last AI book written using Lisp, would that make it worth reading? There's nothing newer in AI! :-) -- __Pascal Bourguignon__ http://www.informatimago.com/ |