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Oh man that guy was my machine learning professor at NYU :) Sparked my interested in Lisp, but now I seem to recall that he wrote all the problem examples in hi
by fat0wl 13y ago
Oh man that guy was my machine learning professor at NYU :) Sparked my interested in Lisp, but now I seem to recall that he wrote all the problem examples in his own language.... Lush. Even so, all my knowledge of Lisp syntax and neural nets stems from his bad-ass lectures
- jibberia 13y agoI started taking that class but had to drop it -- tried it way too early in my CS career. Having to use his language definitely didn't help! But you're right, I absolutely loved the lectures, even if a bunch of it went over my head.
- fat0wl 13y agoi had the good fortune of just auditing ;) i was there for music DSP, not CS
- mathattack 13y agoForcing folks to learn his own language is a pretty big conceit. You think he'll be able to get away with that at Fbook?
- robrenaud 13y agoIt's just a lisp variant with a procedural/matrix mathy bend. It's super easy to pick up if you've written any lisp.
- fat0wl 13y agoyeh it was rough at the time but looking back, if i'd known lisp at all beforehand it wouldnt have been so bad. it was directly listed by many as a turn-off though and is a big part of why a lot of people from my dep't just audited
- mathattack 13y agoahh - got it. My dept was very heavy on Scheme. Reasonable to have a LISP-variant for AI.
- dundun 13y agoHe switched it up to torch last year (framework built on top of lua). I don't think the Neural Net library was quiet what it was in Lush, but it was getting there.