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Having worked with Mark for a couple of years (he was my manager), I got to hear many stories. One of the more interesting was when he got special permission f
by lettergram 3y ago
Having worked with Mark for a couple of years (he was my manager), I got to hear many stories.
One of the more interesting was when he got special permission from his employer at the time to purchase / access a lisp machine.
Wealth of knowledge, good programmer, definitely worth reading his books (if interested in a topic he covers)
- emmelaich 3y agoNice, what was the year? Approximately.
- KRAKRISMOTT 3y agoMore importantly, he’s a GOFAI engineer who understands modern ML. Folks like him are rare (especially those of his generation who are still actively coding).
- tromp 3y agoHad to look that up: "Good old fashioned artificial intelligence"
- freilanzer 3y agoI always read it as "gang of four ai" first.
- KRAKRISMOTT 3y agoGOFAI is basically "artificial intelligence" algorithms that don't involve neural networks or statistical learning. Deep Blue and Prolog (knowledge bases aka "expert systems") are your typical examples. They usually involve sophisticated tree construction and hand coded search algorithms. Modern ML also has tree stuff and symbolic algorithms but they are all heavily augmented by deep learning and probabilistic methods like Monte Carlo. When people say Lisp was used for "AI research" and that it suffered from the "AI winter", GOFAI is what they are referring to. Neural networks exist back then but they were very small scale, good enough for some signal processing applications and as research curiosities but most of the powerful emergent capabilities were never truly realized until post millenium.
- julianeon 3y agoI’d love to read a write up of someone buying a Lisp machine and then coding in it. It’s a fascinating historical what could have been, if they had survived to the present day.