kolber

pandora’s vox: on community in cyberspace

by humdog (1994)

when i went into cyberspace i went into it thinking that it was a place like any other place and that it would be a human interaction like any other human interaction. i was wrong when i thought that. it was a terrible mistake.

the very first understanding that i had that it was not a place like any place and that the interaction would be different was when people began to talk to me as though i were a man. when they wrote about me in the third person, they would say “he.” it interested me to have people think i was “he” instead of “she” and so at first i did not say anything. i grinned and let them think i was “he.” this went on for a little while and it was fun but after a while i was uncomfortable. finally i said unto them that i, humdog, was a woman and not a man. this surprised them. at that moment i realized that the dissolution of gender-category was something that was happening everywhere, and perhaps it was only just very obvious on the ne

reborg

Rich Already Answered That!

A list of commonly asked questions, design decisions, reasons why Clojure is the way it is as they were answered directly by Rich (even when from many years ago, those answers are pretty much valid today!). Feel free to point friends and colleagues here next time they ask (again). Answers are pasted verbatim (I've made small adjustments for readibility, but never changed a sentence) from mailing lists, articles, chats.

How to use:

• The link in the table of content jumps at the copy of the answer on this page.
• The link on the answer itself points back at the original post.

Table of Content

ssrihari

An opinionated list of excellent Clojure learning materials

These resources (articles, books, and videos) are useful when you're starting to learn the language, or when you're learning a specific part of the language. This an opinionated list, no doubt. I've compiled this list from writing and teaching Clojure over the last 10 years.

• 🔴 Mandatory (for both beginners and intermediates)
• 🟩 For beginners
• 🟨 For intermediates

Table of contents

1. Getting into the language

VictorTaelin

Fast Discrete Program Search 2

I am investigating how to use Bend (a parallel language) to accelerate Symbolic AI; in special, Discrete Program Search. Basically, think of it as an alternative to LLMs, GPTs, NNs, that is also capable of generating code, but by entirely different means. This kind of approach was never scaled with mass compute before - it wasn't possible! - but Bend changes this. So, my idea was to do it, and see where it goes.

Now, while I was implementing some candidate algorithms on Bend, I realized that, rather than mass parallelism, I could use an entirely different mechanism to speed things up: SUP Nodes. Basically, it is a feature that Bend inherited from its underlying model ("Interaction Combinators") that, in simple terms, allows us to combine multiple functions into a single superposed one, and apply them all to an argument "at the same time". In short, it allows us to call N functions at a fraction of the expected cost. Or, in simple terms: why parallelize when we can share?

A

wcalderipe

Control flow in Clojure

A gist containing a problem example and different implementations based on what is being discussed at How are clojurians handling control flow on their projects?.

Feel free to leave a comment and feedback is welcome 😃

Examples in this Gist

• Bult-in exceptions in a thread macro
• didibus' trylet macro

hiredman

#!/bin/sh

#_(
   true; exec clj -J-Xmx256M -J-XX:-OmitStackTraceInFastThrow -Sdeps "`sed -n -e '/;;(DEPS$/,/;;DEPS)$/p' $0`" -M -i $0 -e '(user/main)'
   )

(ns user
  #?(:cljs (:require-macros [user :as m]))
  (:require
   #?@(:clj ([cljs.build.api :as cljs]

didibus

(ns complex-business-process-example
  "A stupid example of a more complex business process to implement as a flowchart.")

;;;; Config

(def config
  "When set to :test will trigger the not-boosted branch which won't write to db.
   When set to :prod will trigger the boosted branch which will try to write to the db."
  {:env :prod})

leonoel

(ns complex-business-process-example-missionary
  "A stupid example of a more complex business process to implement as a flowchart."
  (:require [missionary.core :as m])
  (:import missionary.Cancelled))

;;;; Config

(def config
  "When set to :test will trigger the not-boosted branch which won't write to db.
   When set to :prod will trigger the boosted branch which will try to write to the db."

holyjak

;; A macro to create a decorator (wrapper) for a objects implementing a Java interface
;; Disclaimer: The code most certainly is not perfect and does not handle some corner cases
;; License: The Unlicense http://unlicense.org/
(require '[clojure.string :as str])

(defn type->tag [parameter-type]
  (let [array? (-> parameter-type name (str/ends-with? "<>"))
        primitive? '#{int long float double short boolean byte char}
        type   (if array?
                 (-> parameter-type name (str/replace #"<>$" "") symbol)

mmzsource