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Also relevant, Rich Hickey listed the books that inspired him to create Clojure in his own Amazon account: https://www.amazon.com/ideas/amzn1.account.AFAABBRGIV

by nextos 3y ago

Also relevant, Rich Hickey listed the books that inspired him to create Clojure in his own Amazon account: https://www.amazon.com/ideas/amzn1.account.AFAABBRGIVOWVKTHP5NOJU5LMROQ/3BSKWCYM12RBZ https://www.amazon.com/ideas/amzn1.account.AFAABBRGIVOWVKTHP... Easier to browse list: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/137472.Rich_Hickey_s_Clojure_Bookshelf https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/137472.Rich_Hickey_s_Clo... I find it interesting he includes Mozart/Oz (CTM). It'd be great to see more ideas from that language coming to Clojure. Also Norvig's AIMA. Clojure could be well positioned for neuro-symbolic AI. That's somehow connected to Anglican, discussed in the History of Clojure article.

looping8 3y ago
The Goodreads list has "Programming Clojure by Stuart Halloway", I guess it's an error or included more as an introduction to Clojure?
- casion 3y ago
  This book was written before Clojure was released as 1.0. (1.0 and Programming Clojure were released together!) Stu and Rich worked closely at that point. The process of writing the book and Stu were influential on Clojure.
geokon 3y ago
Has Anglican been used in any significant project? It looks interesting (though tbh I barely understand what it does.. it's borderline technobable to me) but I haven't been able to find it used anywhere on Github. It's also gotten zero updates since 2018 Doesn't mean it's not a hidden gem... I would have said something similar about Missionary as well
- nextos 3y ago
  I think the main outcome from Anglican was a great theoretical textbook: https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.10756 https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.10756 But it is probably too expressive, and therefore too slow, for most practical inference problems.
zerr 3y ago
Funny that it includes Instructor's Manual for SICP but not SICP itself. I wonder if anyone has read it (the manual), is it good? Seems it is not available online.
- capableweb 3y ago
  I think it's suitable for people who are trying to work through SICP by themselves, it contains some discussions and extra exercises that could be helpful in that scenario. Otherwise I think it's just like a small addition and won't vastly shape your experience with SICP, the main content is in the main book :)
parentheses 3y ago
Funny that it includes the hammock :)

by nextos 3y ago

looping8 3y ago

The Goodreads list has "Programming Clojure by Stuart Halloway", I guess it's an error or included more as an introduction to Clojure?

casion 3y ago
This book was written before Clojure was released as 1.0. (1.0 and Programming Clojure were released together!) Stu and Rich worked closely at that point. The process of writing the book and Stu were influential on Clojure.

geokon 3y ago

Has Anglican been used in any significant project? It looks interesting (though tbh I barely understand what it does.. it's borderline technobable to me) but I haven't been able to find it used anywhere on Github. It's also gotten zero updates since 2018 Doesn't mean it's not a hidden gem... I would have said something similar about Missionary as well

nextos 3y ago
I think the main outcome from Anglican was a great theoretical textbook: https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.10756 https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.10756 But it is probably too expressive, and therefore too slow, for most practical inference problems.

zerr 3y ago

Funny that it includes Instructor's Manual for SICP but not SICP itself. I wonder if anyone has read it (the manual), is it good? Seems it is not available online.

capableweb 3y ago
I think it's suitable for people who are trying to work through SICP by themselves, it contains some discussions and extra exercises that could be helpful in that scenario. Otherwise I think it's just like a small addition and won't vastly shape your experience with SICP, the main content is in the main book :)

parentheses 3y ago

Funny that it includes the hammock :)