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Peter Norvig on Gradient Dissent Podcast

Someone on the Julia Slack mentioned this interview with Peter Norvig on the Gradient Dissent podcast.

  • The 4th edition of Peter's book, "Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach" was released earlier this year.

  • When asked, "Do you think that Python will continue to be the main programming language for ML for the next decade?", Peter replied, "Looking at where we are today, I guess I would be happier if Julia was the main language" ! (40:34)

Programming Language Popularity-Part Thirteen

I occasionally compile some statistics on programming language popularity by running a bunch of Google searches to rank programming languages according to the number of results. I wouldn't read too much into these stats, but they are not without value.

This time, I've included the code I use (written in Racket) and the raw data.

I made the following Google searches and summed the results:

"implemented in <lang>"
"written in <lang>"
"developed in <lang>"
"programmed in <lang>"

Wordpress to Frog

After thirteen years with Wordpress, I decided to switch to static site generation for this blog. As a Racket programmer, Frog was a natural choice. This post highlights some of the lessons I learned in the process. I'm running MacOS locally and deploying to Ubuntu Linux.

  • in Emacs
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Upgrading to Emacs 24-5

I previously wrote a post about switching from Carbon Emacs to Gnu Emacs. Upgrading is pretty simple now, so I thought I’d record the procedure for installing Emacs from source on OSX for future reference:

How to Write a Spelling Corrector in Racket

In September, 2008, I translated Peter Norvig’s spelling corrector into Ruby. My current favorite language is Racket, so I thought it would be a good exercise to port it to Racket. After some helpful tips by Vincent St-Amour and Sam Tobin-Hochstadt in the #racket IRC channel, I came up with the following. I’ll show it two different ways, the first minimizes the line count (without sacrificing too much stylistically) to 27 lines, and the second is closer to how I’d normally format it: