Monthly Archives: November 2009

Side by side: Python, Common Lisp, Clojure

By gavin | Published: November 25, 2009
UPDATE: Find the rest of the code at http://bitbucket.org/gavinmcgovern/clj-bayes/. My holiday project (of the sort that doesn’t involve cooking at least) is porting the Bayesian spam code from Peter Seibel’s great book “Practical Common Lisp” to Clojure. This will be a big part of the next-gen Big In Twitter that’s slowly coming together. Although I’ve been [...]
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Google’s Chrome OS is pessimistic

By gavin | Published: November 22, 2009
Listening to the motivation behind Google’s Chrome OS I was struck by how pessimistic it sounds. What do you get in an OS designed for tomorrow’s netbooks? You get a lot less. You’ll more than likely run it on a very cheap feeling plastic computer. Keep in mind today’s $300-400 netbook isn’t what Google is [...]
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