Re: Google AI winner uses lisp

2010-12-10 Thread Jon Seltzer
CL On Dec 9, 7:09 pm, Ken Wesson kwess...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 8:53 PM, Alec Battles alec.batt...@gmail.com wrote: I'm sure a few people have read this news already. It's been up for a week, though strangely ZDnet -- which, on principle, I refuse to link to Why? --

Re: Google AI winner uses lisp

2010-12-10 Thread javajosh
What is FFI? On Dec 9, 10:47 pm, Ken Wesson kwess...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 12:43 AM, javajosh javaj...@gmail.com wrote: It does beg the question, though: what is a reasonable bare minimum function set that a real-life lisp would require? I think different people might

Re: Google AI winner uses lisp

2010-12-10 Thread Wilson MacGyver
Foreign function interface. To call C/C++ libs. On Dec 10, 2010, at 6:52 PM, javajosh javaj...@gmail.com wrote: What is FFI? On Dec 9, 10:47 pm, Ken Wesson kwess...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 12:43 AM, javajosh javaj...@gmail.com wrote: It does beg the question, though: what

Re: Google AI winner uses lisp

2010-12-10 Thread Alec Battles
On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 8:53 PM, Alec Battles alec.batt...@gmail.com wrote: I'm sure a few people have read this news already. It's been up for a week, though strangely ZDnet -- which, on principle, I refuse to link to Why? Because of the website's close ties to Washington. This blog post

Google AI winner uses lisp

2010-12-09 Thread Alec Battles
I'm sure a few people have read this news already. It's been up for a week, though strangely ZDnet -- which, on principle, I refuse to link to -- is one of the only places to write it up. http://pr-usa.net/index.php?option=com_contenttask=viewid=560484Itemid= Nice news to read before

Re: Google AI winner uses lisp

2010-12-09 Thread Ken Wesson
On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 8:53 PM, Alec Battles alec.batt...@gmail.com wrote: I'm sure a few people have read this news already. It's been up for a week, though strangely ZDnet -- which, on principle, I refuse to link to Why? -- is one of the only places to write it up.

Re: Google AI winner uses lisp

2010-12-09 Thread javajosh
Common Lisp. http://quotenil.com/ On Dec 9, 7:09 pm, Ken Wesson kwess...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 8:53 PM, Alec Battles alec.batt...@gmail.com wrote: I'm sure a few people have read this news already. It's been up for a week, though strangely ZDnet -- which, on principle, I

Re: Google AI winner uses lisp

2010-12-09 Thread Ken Wesson
On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 11:55 PM, javajosh javaj...@gmail.com wrote: Common Lisp. It figures. :) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Clojure group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are

Re: Google AI winner uses lisp

2010-12-09 Thread javajosh
On Dec 9, 9:07 pm, Ken Wesson kwess...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 11:55 PM, javajosh javaj...@gmail.com wrote: Common Lisp. It figures. :) It's still a really exciting story - thanks Alec for sharing it! I was reading Gabor's post (http://quotenil.com/Planet-Wars-Post-

Re: Google AI winner uses lisp

2010-12-09 Thread Ken Wesson
On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 12:13 AM, javajosh javaj...@gmail.com wrote: On Dec 9, 9:07 pm, Ken Wesson kwess...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 11:55 PM, javajosh javaj...@gmail.com wrote: Common Lisp. It figures. :) It's still a really exciting story - thanks Alec for sharing it! I

Re: Google AI winner uses lisp

2010-12-09 Thread javajosh
On Dec 9, 9:16 pm, Ken Wesson kwess...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 12:13 AM, javajosh javaj...@gmail.com wrote: On Dec 9, 9:07 pm, Ken Wesson kwess...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 11:55 PM, javajosh javaj...@gmail.com wrote: Common Lisp. It figures. :) It's

Re: Google AI winner uses lisp

2010-12-09 Thread Ken Wesson
On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 12:43 AM, javajosh javaj...@gmail.com wrote: It does beg the question, though: what is a reasonable bare minimum function set that a real-life lisp would require? I think different people might give different answers to that. The academic computer scientist is likely to