JESS: Clojure Opinions

2010-12-30 Thread Donald Paul Winston
I'm developing a kind of "expert system" to perform exploratory data analysis. I'm using R/Rserve as a data analysis scripting language within a tomcat java web app along with Jess. I've recently "discovered" something called Incanter and Clojure. A statistics library for Lisp implemented on a J

Re: JESS: Hello To Jess User Group and How Is Jess Doing?

2010-12-30 Thread Donald Paul Winston
I think the mailing list is on vacation for the holidays. I sent one message a couple of days ago and it fell into a black hole. On Dec 30, 2010, at 11:26 AM, dc tech wrote: > Rejoining the Jess community after a multi-year hiatus and notice that the > mailing list has been very quiet. I am c

Re: JESS: Re: calculating benefit costs

2011-01-07 Thread Donald Paul Winston
So many if else statements on the RHS is "unruly". On Jan 7, 2011, at 9:15 AM, Derek Adams wrote: > Thanks for the help guys. Here is what I ended up with. This works, but I'm > sure it's not the most efficient way to solve the problem. > > (defrule setCalculatedCostGCI20k5k > (HrBenefit

Re: JESS: Re: calculating benefit costs

2011-01-09 Thread Donald Paul Winston
I found this book (Giarratanno & Riley) to be of very low value for my purposes. I have yet to find a decent book about rule base programming. "Jess In Action" is the only one that's been useful for me. A couple of Drools books I've read were ridiculous. Most AI and knowledge base books are 95%

Re: JESS: Jess and Clojure

2011-06-03 Thread Donald Paul Winston
"cognitive dissonace" ? Now I have a name for all my problems. On Jun 3, 2011, at 10:02 AM, Ernest Friedman-Hill wrote: > Not to mention the cognitive dissonance of working with two similar-looking > but uncomfortably different languages at once. ---

Re: JESS: Is it possible to bind a Java object directly to a Jess variable without creating a new object?

2011-11-07 Thread Donald Paul Winston
Use "shadow" facts. see http://www.jessrules.com/jesswiki/view?FactsVsShadowFacts On Nov 4, 2011, at 1:08 PM, Hunter McMillen wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I am trying to assert to Jess that an object exists when I encounter a new > object in my Java program. Right now I am using a template to mi