Re: Wolfram: 100 years since Principia Mathematica

2010-12-03 Thread Alec Battles
He may have some interesting points but... Anyone who makes grandiose claims and can't bother to give credit to the people who have helped them along the way deserves to be ignored. My feelings exactly. His perception of himself seems self-aggrandizing as well. Why is John Carmack the only

Re: Moderately off-topic: installing emacs on OSX

2010-12-09 Thread Alec Battles
On Dec 6, 9:16 pm, Phil Hagelberg p...@hagelb.org wrote: On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 9:00 PM, javajosh javaj...@gmail.com wrote: Sorry for asking here, but I think it's at least a little relevant to Clojure since I for one wouldn't be installing emacs if it wasn't for Clojure and Slime. Getting

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

2010-12-10 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

Re: Moderately off-topic: installing emacs on OSX

2010-12-10 Thread Alec Battles
I don't use OS X so I can't comment on such a consensus, but while I appreciate the sentiment, it's actually harmful to some degree to have lots of blog posts scattered around everywhere that all have slightly different advice, especially since that advice usually becomes outdated within the

Re: Lisp history

2010-12-10 Thread Alec Battles
 For those who were not around when the Common Lisp standard was being debated you might find this interesting: http://lisp.geek.nz/weekly-repl/ Common Lisp Standardization: The good, the bad, and the ugly by Peter Seibel Thanks for sharing this. Anyone whose name pulls up a profile page

Re: Posted the Bowling Game Kata in Clojure w/ Video. Thoughts welcome. EOM

2010-12-12 Thread Alec Battles
Because posting the link would make some modicum of sense… http://blog.twonegatives.com/post/2168030248/kata ^_^ Excellent blog post. I have yet to read Dave Thomas's book, though it's very high on my list. One note: As a fairly seasoned amateur of pretty much anything East Asian I object

Re: Downloadable Clojure mp3s

2010-12-15 Thread Alec Battles
I use audio in much the same way. On the other hand, I hardly listen to music. I have nothing to contribute, but would be interested in seeing what people end up posting. I suppose extracting the audio track from a video lecture is in most cases a pretty good idea... (after all, if Feynman were

Re: could clojure be androids joker card

2010-11-09 Thread Alec Battles
Andriod is not Clojure's joker card, Clojure is Andriod's joker card. --DragonCat -- 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 moderated - please be

Re: Wolfram: 100 years since Principia Mathematica

2010-11-27 Thread Alec Battles
Thought some Clojure folk might enjoy this: http://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2010/11/100-years-since-principia-mathematica/ Though I don't use Clojure (I follow this list out of curiosity), I have a hard time imagining why anything Wolfram writes is interesting, and furthermore why any a user of

Re: Wolfram: 100 years since Principia Mathematica

2010-12-01 Thread Alec Battles
I thought his blog had some interesting points.  I enjoyed reading it.  Do I wish Mathematica was more affordable and/or open source?  Yes.  So what. That doesn't make Wolfram a lunatic or a fraud. Do you recall me saying that? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the