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Carin Meier
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Carin Meier writes Squid's Blog, a personal blog at gigasquidsoftware.com about programming, writing and career. Since 2011, 32 different Hacker News readers have linked it 90 times, most often “Deep Learning in Clojure with Cortex”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-05-30, and you can follow it by feed.
Random and Sometimes Useful Thoughts About Technology.
Most-linked posts?
- Deep Learning in Clojure with Cortex3 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2016-12-27
- One Fish Spec Fish – Dr. Seuss Inspired Clojure.spec3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2016-05-30
- Hugging Face GPT2 with Clojure3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-01-11
- Clojure Interop with R and Python on GraalVM3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2017-10-23
- Hello World for the Next Generation3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2016-07-06
- Wold Domination with Hexapods and Clojure2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-03-21
- Why Hyperdimensional Socks Never Match2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-02-07
- Chemical Computing with Clojure2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-06-26
- Hugging Face GPT with Clojure2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-01-19
- Green Eggs and Transducers2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-09-06
What Hacker News says?
I like all of Carin Meier's talks, but I think the one that made the most lasting impression was "The Joy of Flying Robots with Clojure." http://gigasquidsoftware.com/speaking/
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on “Ask HN: What's your favorite tech talk?”Submitted The Joy of Flying AR Drones with Clojure as a story · 86 points
HN discussionHere's a dump of the "Programming" folder from my RSS reader: Aphyr's (aka the guy behind the Jepsen distributed system test series): https://aphyr.com/ Fred Herbert, the author of Learn You Some Erlang: http://ferd.ca/ Eevee, who posts a mishmash of stuff about programming in general but these days is mostly focussed on games: https://eev.ee/ Tef/Programming is Terrible, which features strong opinions about program…
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on “Ask HN: What programming blogs do you follow?”Submitted Hitchhiker's Guide to Clojure as a story · 78 points
HN discussionI think this is a good example of Spec being used to guide the solution http://gigasquidsoftware.com/blog/2016/05/29/one-fish-spec-f... I don't think Spec alone removes the need for mocking, using Clean Architecture is probably more important for that https://8thlight.com/blog/uncle-bob/2012/08/13/the-clean-arc... If you structure your app so that any IO lives at the edges, it becomes possible to test all your busin…
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on “Near Future of Programming Languages [pdf]”Submitted Guide to Leaving your Mac as a story · 76 points
HN discussionIn the Clojure community we just got access to all of python http://gigasquidsoftware.com/blog/2020/01/10/hugging-face-gp... I think learning Clojure will continue to pay off the reach you can get with it in one language is insane
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on “Lisping at JPL (2002)”Submitted 7 John McCarthy Papers in 7 Weeks as a story · 54 points
HN discussionAlso has a great list of other blogs, most of which are my favorites now too. https://jvns.ca/blog/2016/04/09/some-of-my-favorite-blogs/ here's a copy+pastable list: https://rachelbythebay.com/w/ http://danluu.com/ https://aphyr.com/ http://www.elidedbranches.com/ http://composition.al/blog/2015/03/31/what-isnt-a-key-value-... https://www.harihareswara.net/sumana/2016/03/29/0 http://blog.plover.com/aliens/dd/intro.h…
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on “Ask HN: What are your favourite developer blogs?”Submitted Deep Learning in Clojure with Cortex as a story · 52 points
HN discussionCarin is awesome. Author of such classics as Hitchhiker's Guide To Clojure [1] and World Domination With Hexapods and Clojure [2]. And I think she has a book coming out soonish? Thanks gigasquid, this was a lovely warmup to start my day. [1]: http://hitchhikersclojure.com/ [2]: http://gigasquidsoftware.com/blog/2014/03/20/world-dominatio...
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on “How I Start: Clojure”Submitted Growing a Language with Clojure and Instaparse as a story · 48 points
HN discussionYes exactly. These blog posts have nice little guides on using it: http://gigasquidsoftware.com/blog/2020/01/10/hugging-face-gp... http://gigasquidsoftware.com/blog/2020/01/18/parens-for-pypl... http://gigasquidsoftware.com/blog/2020/01/24/clojure-interop... And you can try it out in nextjournal online notebooks like here: https://nextjournal.com/kommen/gigasquids-libpython-clj-exam...
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on “Python’s tug of war between beginner-friendly and advanced features”Submitted Clojure Interop with R and Python on GraalVM as a story · 15 points
HN discussionIf you're interested in lisps and python's ecosystem you might enjoy lib python from Clojure: http://gigasquidsoftware.com/blog/2020/01/24/clojure-interop... https://run.nextjournalusercontent.com/kommen/parens-for-pol...
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on “Modern, functional Common Lisp: myths and best practices”Submitted Hello World for the Next Generation as a story · 15 points
HN discussionAllow me to offer a counterpoint. Plenty of great developers blog and give talks while getting things done, you may enjoy post by John Carmack, talks by Sandi Metz, talks by Rich Hickey, talks and books by Carin Meller[1], talks and posts by Vaidehi Joshi[2], Kent Beck, or Dave Thomas or Elixir and Ruby fame[3]. Now, I don't know much about .Net, but in the communities in which I'm involved, the best and brightest a…
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on “A response to “Why you can't be a good .NET developer” (2016)”Submitted Can a Programming Language Make You Smarter? as a story · 13 points
HN discussionThis is an example usage based on Dr Seuss: "Green Eggs and Transducers" via @gigasquid http://gigasquidsoftware.com/blog/2014/09/06/green-eggs-and-... (note this is in Clojure not JavaScript - but the ideas and usages are the same).
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on “Transducers.js Round 2 with Benchmarks”Submitted Hobby Languages for Clojurists as a story · 9 points
HN discussionYou are technically correct, it's just that when the vector of booleans gets long enough they start to exhibit certain properties that "normal" binary vectors don't have. Because of this the authors use the term "hyper dimensional vector" to let other professional researchers quickly know what they are talking about. Here's a decent blog post about some of those properties: http://gigasquidsoftware.com/blog/2016/02/…
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on “Maryland research could improve the AI task of sensorimotor representation”Submitted Tutorial: Neural networks in Clojure with core.matrix as a story · 7 points
HN discussionMachines as simple as thermostats can be said to have beliefs, and having beliefs seems to be a characteristic of most machines capable of problem solving performance. -- John McCarthy A claim that a machine has consciousness seems like it would be similar to a claim that a machine has beliefs, and the correctness of such a claim probably has more to do with what the criteria are for something having beliefs or cons…
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on “Can we make consciousness into an engineering problem?”Submitted Hugging Face GPT2 with Clojure as a story · 6 points
HN discussionthis is the permalink to the article: https://gigasquidsoftware.com/blog/2020/01/10/hugging-face-g... (I accidentally submitted the landing page of the blog)
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on “Hugging Face GPT with Clojure”Submitted Clojure Partition with GOT Pugs as a story · 6 points
HN discussionCommuting on what? My long commutes on Amtrak and Buses have access to power -- which means my MacBook is fine. It is really a hard tradeoff of screen size to portability if you don't need to worry about power. If you do need to worry about power then an Air if you want OSX. This is what I'd be eyeing for other OS's http://gigasquidsoftware.com/blog/2013/12/26/guide-to-leavin...
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on “Ask HN: Best developer laptop for coding on long commutes?”Submitted Hugging Face GPT with Clojure as a story · 5 points
HN discussionBlog post about identifying cats and dogs using Cortex: http://gigasquidsoftware.com/blog/2016/12/27/deep-learning-i...
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on “Machine Learning in Clojure”Submitted Clojure MXNet March Update as a story · 5 points
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