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by imaltont 4y ago
Guile was afaik, until it wasn't anymore and they went with Vala instead, though I can't remember when that happened.
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by imaltont 4y ago
There is also Vala that was made for GTK/GObject developement. Racket also has pretty good out of the box GUI support afaik.
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by imaltont 4y ago
I think the Lisps, and especially Common Lisp, in addition to Smalltalk gives you a lot of the things you mention here. That interactive development environment where you can compile any code at any time is almost a given in these, with exa
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by imaltont 4y ago
I feel the same way about just math in general, and all the sciences that derive a lot of their knowledge and systems from it. You start learning math as just high level/abstracted away things where you just have to memorize that this
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by imaltont 4y ago
As good as Ian Goodfellow's work has been, I think I have to disagree with him on what is part of the back propagation algorithm. Rumelhart et. al 1986 also describe it is a single algorithm from start to end. It is true you can use ot
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by imaltont 4y ago
Both Tom M. Mitchell's "Machine Learning" as well as Russel & Norvig's "Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach" define the whole process from propagating the input until you have an output, calculate th
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by imaltont 4y ago
The way I like to explain it, which is how I have seen it explained several times, is that all AI can be reduced to search/optimization. ML is just applying the search over the function that will search for the final answer over a data
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by imaltont 4y ago
OSS part of FLOSS stands for open source software. It is an integral part of free software as defined by the FSF, and to open source as defined by the OSI. Any other usages of the term(s) is either ill-informed or malicious in an attempt to
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by imaltont 4y ago
Things are highlighted as you go through, the buffers showing various values in scope is updated all the time, you can add certain variables/objects to be watched. GUD (built in) supports pretty much anything GDB can do (and also suppo
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by imaltont 4y ago
> Yes a JetBrains IDEs will take longer to build the AST model in RAM but once you have it they do amazing things with it. E.g semantic search and replace, etc. The debugger capabilities are spectacular, they literally show the values of
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by imaltont 4y ago
> Just give me a simple and easy to use language that has built in packages for doing most of the common stuff (working with different data formats, network interaction etc.) and has a built in cross platform GUI library, with an IDE tha