Clojure/conj for beginners?

2011-08-16 Thread Christopher Burke
Hi Recently I've taken interest to learning Clojure. I've watched presentations, read the Joy of Clojure, done some examples on 4clojure, but have yet to do any "real" programming. I work in enterprise-land and for the most part its all Java without much room to try newer things. With that

Re: Stanford AI Class

2011-08-16 Thread Christopher Burke
I was wondering about the prerequisites as well and found some further information here: http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs229/materials.html In particular, the first 2 entries under Section Notes. On Aug 16, 1:46 pm, Mark Engelberg wrote: > Nice.  I'm glad these other classes are getting the ful

Re: Is Clojure Simple?

2011-10-25 Thread Christopher Burke
Interesting discussion of this talk, including comments from Rich (or at least someone claiming to be Rich): http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/lirke/simple_made_easy_by_rich_hickey_video/ On Oct 25, 7:00 am, Laurent PETIT wrote: > 2011/10/25 Michael Jaaka : > > > Something is simple a

Clojure and large data sets

2011-12-08 Thread Christopher Burke
Hi All, As a newbie I try to read up on Clojure whenever I can. One of the common things that I read is that Clojure is really good for operating on large data sets, but I haven't seen anyone articulate why that is aside from alluding to lazy evaluation. So I assume lazy evaluation is the prima