Personal bits around AI, Programming and other things I might find interesting
Yesterday I finally dedicated some time to assembly my newest toy: a Lego Mindstorm NXT 2.0! I just made the basic drive rover with some sounds. I need now to explore more the capabilities of the NXT. I need to see what other options exist in terms of programming the brick. As before, the internal … Continue reading NXT 2.0
Yesterday took place the Munich Lisp User Group meeting. The group is a bit irregular in making them, and taken this into account, I think it was successful (there was one planned in November but it didn’t happen; in the meantime, I went to Zürich to attend one ;-)). Anyway, yesterday there were 2 short … Continue reading Lisp meeting in Munich
Common Lisp is one of those languages that you either love or hate (for any definition). Unfortunately, the later group is rather quite large and the reasons for that dislike go from the simple parenthesis (I still wonder what these little fellas did to annoy so many people) to many other things. One of them … Continue reading Quicklisp or: How I learned to stop worrying and love installing Common Lisp libraries
In my previous post, I wrote an overview of this simple, but important, component which is the generation of pseudo-random numbers, using Common Lisp. However, sometimes you need a little bit more. Naturally, an implementation only offers one generator and no standard facilities exist to change. If you want a different generator the only options … Continue reading More random number generators in Lisp: using GSLL
For the past few days I have been exploring a little bit more the generation of pseudo-random numbers in Lisp. In the past I have done a lot of programming where this was something not to overlook (e.g., evolutionary algorithms). However, since it was mostly stuff to be used by me, I didn’t spend time … Continue reading Exploring pseudo-random numbers in Lisp
