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Comment · 6 years ago
Maharajji's (Neem Karoli Baba) only possession was a blanket and he was living in a remote village in North India in the 60's. There is little chance that he had access to the drugs you mentioned.
And the LSD that was carried by Ram Dass was made by Sandoz, arguably the purest LSD that you could ever get.
May be reading Ram Dass' account of the event in _Be Here Now_ will provide some much needed context.
Comment · 9 years ago
Barliman is written in miniKanren[0], a logic/relational programming system built by Daniel Friedman[1], Will Byrd[2] & Oleg Kiselyov[3]. There are implementations of miniKanren in languages other than Scheme, one of the prominent being Clojure[4].
To oversimplify, in the miniKanren world programs are written using relational logic, wherein there are "variables" and then certain "relationships" between the variables. That is the program specification. Now we can run the specification and allow miniKanren to generate one or more variables that satisfy the relations. Thus a miniKanren program can have more than one answers. One interesting side-effect of this kind of an abstraction is that programs can also be run backwards to generate more programs that satisfy certain relations. That's pretty much what's happening with Barliman.
[0] http://minikanren.org/ [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_P._Friedman [2] http://webyrd.net/ [3] http://okmij.org/ftp/ [4] https://github.com/clojure/core.logic
Comment · 9 years ago
I started my career hacking Common Lisp (Allegro CL), these days I do Clojure, among other things.
That comic by Dr. Barski tears me up every time! Just to test, I went and read the comic again and I cried, again!
I have met Dr. Barski personally at a Clojure conference many years ago and I still remember him as an extremely kind and knowledgeable person.
Thank you for the Land of Lisp, Dr. Barski! Some day, we will be able to assemble our guilds and beat the Insectoids for good. Until then,long live language du jour!
Comment · 10 years ago
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Comment · 12 years ago
Alex, there is also a small company called Helpshift that's using Clojure in production since 2009 :-)
Comment · 12 years ago
These kind of problems are more elegantly solved in logic (aka relational) programming languages like Prolog and similar logic programming implementations like miniKanren & Clojure's core.logic. Here's the same problem solved using Clojure's core.logic library https://github.com/swannodette/logic-tutorial/blob/master/sr...
Comment · 12 years ago
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Comment · 12 years ago
The next decade could belong to Julia.
Comment · 13 years ago
Hi Jordan, ReactJS looks really awesome. Curious, what kind of persistent data-structures do you use at Facebook? Are they similar to the ones on Clojure[Script]?
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