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Better writeup (cites sources!) and discussion from 5 months ago. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6157157 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6157157 An
by archgoon 13y ago
Better writeup (cites sources!) and discussion from 5 months ago.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6157157 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6157157
And the Riken Lab press release
http://www.riken.jp/en/pr/press/2013/20130802_1/ http://www.riken.jp/en/pr/press/2013/20130802_1/
This is a link to the poster presentation. There does not seem to be a full paper associated with this research yet.
http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2202/14/S1/P163 http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2202/14/S1/P163
The NEST simulator (The researchers Morrison and Diesman are integral people on this project):
http://www.nest-initiative.org/index.php/Software:About_NEST http://www.nest-initiative.org/index.php/Software:About_NEST
- NAFV_P 13y agoI looked up NEST, written in C++ with Python. What, no LISP? When I hear AI being discussed LISP comes up fairly often. In the book "Meta Maths: The Quest for Omega" by Greg Chaitin, he mentions that Kurt Godel's work had a notation that was uncannily similar to LISP code. On the other paw he compares Turing's idea of code as something more akin to machine code.
- theseoafs 13y agoHistorically speaking, Lisp was the de-facto language of AI for quite a bit of time. That's only been the case for classical AI research, however. People working on AI and machine learning these days aren't necessarily all working in Lisp -- they're usually working in high-performance languages, or in interpreted languages with high-performance libraries (e.g. Python plus numpy or scipy or what have you).
- NAFV_P 13y agoGreg says he wrote his first LISP interpreter in FORTRAN, around the early 1970's. I was thinking that NEST might have code that emulates certain properties of LISP, I've heard of many LISP interpreters being written in other languages over the ages.