Re:The Idea of Lisp
by coliveira on Friday December 16, 2016 @09:41AM
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Most algorithms currently labeled machine learning are different in nature from original AI algorithms. Nowadays there is big emphasis in numerical algorithms, while in the past AI was about symbolic computation -- which is the biggest strength of Lisp. If you only use numerical algorithms, you can use Python or even FORTRAN.
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But what makes Python any better at numerical algorithms than Common Lisp? It's not like CL is lacking in numeric support. It probably has superior numeric support than Python, actually.
Some/most Common Lisp implementation have better native support for numeric types than Python, but Python has a wealth of libraries like numpy that bind to optimised C/Fortran/assembly.
Re:The Idea of Lisp
by dreamcompiler on Friday December 16, 2016 @04:17PM
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Exactly. Without numpy, Python is orders of magnitude slower at numeric computation than Common Lisp. With numpy, it's faster because numpy is basically C.