Hi, Maggie and John, On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 10:39 AM, John M Gamble <jgam...@ripco.com> wrote: > On 7/25/2014 8:48 AM, Maggie X wrote: > > Thanks for looping me in, David! I don''t see Paul's email here though :) > > Looks like a nice contribution. Is it going to involve PDL?
I don't plan for it to involve PDL at this time, but then I only have the vaguest idea of what PDL even is. The parsing is going to be done using JKGEL's excellent Marpa::R2 module, and the math is probably going to be bluntly smacked at with plenty of brute force. I suspect PDL might be a better form of brute force than my current plan, which involves some pretty hare-brained shenanigans. I'm a simple man, with just enough undergrad math under my belt to pass an Electrical Engineering bachelors. Everything since then has been entirely self-taught, and it's been no easy road. I've found you can do most things by watching a few youtube videos and smashing violently at the keyboard, though. I forget whether I linked the (work in progress) grammar I'll be using, but it's at https://gist.github.com/PWBENNETT/8435996 if anyone's curious. I have emailed the authors of the original paper, though two of their four addresses came back as "no such user", so ... yeah. I suspect the next steps are going to involve my learning PDL, and brushing up on the requisite math itself. I can glark a lot of it from context, but context can only take you so far. Thanks for your interest, -- P/PW/PWBENNETT
