Lambda the Ultimate

shen.clj uses 750 LOC of Clojure to bootstrap Shen via “K Lambda”, the small Lisp Mark designed for porting Shen. Shen itself is a portable version of Qi, which is tied to Common Lisp. This is hence a story of 3-4 Lisps.

Enumerable.java uses ~13k LOC to port a single module of Ruby, while adding Lambdas to Java 5 via a 2-4k LOC Java macro written using ASM, the bytecode toolkit. This is mainly a story of stubbornness and wishful thinking.

I plan to discuss the similarities, the drawbacks, and ultimate futility of both approaches to properly advance programming.

I'm curious.

The neocortex works on principles that are fundamentally different than traditional computers. In this talk I will describe recent advances in understanding these principles and their impact on future computer architectures. The talk will start with a description of sparse distributed representations, which are the fundamental units of information in brains. I will then discuss how these representations are learned and how the brain processes them to build predictive models from high velocity sensory data streams. Numenta has built a streaming analytics engine based on these principles. I will give a brief introduction to this product and speculate on the future of machine intelligence.

I am curious too... But this is one continent too far away.