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Reading that gives me an impression many issues of getting lisp to run fast like CDR, type checking for add fixnum (sort of like the guess approach), floating p
by ngcc_hk 8y ago
Reading that gives me an impression many issues of getting lisp to run fast like CDR, type checking for add fixnum (sort of like the guess approach), floating point > 32 bit. Hard to implement a fast lisp?
Is lisp relevant if the whole world move deep learning AI with self programming is the norm. May be. But a hardware?
- peter303 8y agoUntil 2010 A.I. was pretty synomynous with LISP.
- eschaton 8y agoEven back in the Lisp Machine days, array processors were used for neural network stuff. You could get an LMI or Symbolics with a floating point accelerator (a Weitek chip), or with an array processor board and library (a whole bunch of Weitek chips and memory, for MIMD or SIMD operation).
- eschaton 8y agoAlso, “machine learning” and “deep learning” are just other terms for neural network systems, which are good for a few specific tasks but are not a general architecture by any means. Symbolic AI of the sort for which Lisp Machines were originally created is still extremely important as something is needed to provide “executive function” in intelligent systems.