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Plop in Arc
1 point by skenney26 5873 days ago | 3 comments
A couple weeks ago a story showed up on Hacker News about a project at Google that is being implemented in Common Lisp: http://code.google.com/p/plop/source/browse/#svn/trunk/src

I'm still trying to grasp what exactly the goals of the project are but it looks like it involves sophisticated machine learning.

A discussion of the project can be found at Hacker News along with comments by the author (Moshe): http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=362440

Would anyone be interested in trying to implement this in Arc? I've started translating some of the utilities and it would be really useful to have someone to bounce ideas off of.



1 point by cchooper 5873 days ago | link

It looks interesting, but it has a dependency on Maxima, which is a huge library. Can you tell which features it uses?

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2 points by skenney26 5873 days ago | link

I dropped Moshe a line to see what he has to say regarding Plop's dependency on Maxima.

I've looked through the first few files and so far have only encountered fairly straight-forward common lisp. Hopefully whatever Maxima features are used will be relatively easy to implement.

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1 point by skenney26 5873 days ago | link

Coincidently, Moshe just finished updating Plop so that it runs correctly without Maxima.

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