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By training I am not a computer scientist, but an applied mathematician, so it is a little difficult for me to make judgement calls on things like type system, lazy evaluation, unary/variadic (don't even know what that means). I am interested in AI (machine learning) and statistical inference. I was looking at Lisp/Scheme because I know that AI needs gave birth to Lisp. Plus you have newer things like Church[1] that extends Scheme to deal with probabilistic models.

[1]http://projects.csail.mit.edu/church/wiki/Church

Comment · 12 years ago

Off-topic: I want to learn a functional programming language, and I was thinking to go with Scheme (because, you know, SICP...) Would there be any advantage for me to go with Haskell instead?

Comment · 12 years ago

Right, it just seemed like they didn't make any connection whatsoever between this particular research and a concrete naval/engineering problem. Kind of like saying "look this is math, engineering is important to Taiwan, engineers use math".

Comment · 12 years ago

Just randomly looked up one of the publications. It's not my area, so I can't talk about the meat of the paper itself, but what does the discussion section have to do with anything?

http://waset.org/publications/11354/applying-half-circle-fuz...

Comment · 12 years ago

Yes, it is a rather geeky thing to say.