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5:27:48
JuanDaugherty
Fare, I like your thesis, will absorb further. One extremely petty thing, you betray yourself as a native speaker of a lang that doesn't have agreement in number, as the English plural usage is regularly ungrammatical including in the first sentence.
5:28:52
JuanDaugherty
extremely petty but distracting, in the first occurrence "topic" instead of "topics" i wondered if you meant topoi
5:30:22
beach
JuanDaugherty: Fare is a native speaker of French, which does have agreement in number.
5:33:27
JuanDaugherty
it is, as I say, petty, if the thesis is cogent, a worthwhile contribution, or at least more perspective on semantics
5:36:26
JuanDaugherty
and no vietnamese does not have agreement in the form of morphological effect on the target, usage is similar to chinese
5:41:32
JuanDaugherty
in any case stuff addressing semantics in a computing context is good, it tends be siloed/isolated in AI/nlp or just pure research on it as such
5:44:07
JuanDaugherty
i.e. true/deep semantics, not the thing called that which is direction for how to implement something syntactically specified
6:00:29
beach
JuanDaugherty: I am definitely not fluent in Vietnamese, and according to Fare, his Vietnamese is (or was) the level of child.
6:01:13
beach
JuanDaugherty: It is more of a game between the two of us. Every time we meet, we try to exchange a few words, but it hasn't been very successful.
6:03:11
beach
JuanDaugherty: Fare claims that he can not understand what I say because my "pronunciation is strange". However, the (southern) Vietnamese clerk at the Eurasia store understands my (southern) Vietnamese quite well.
6:08:48
JuanDaugherty
ACTION doesn't know of anything like a common semantic thing for lisp as such other than the usual inclusion of a prolog implementation
6:09:58
fouric
Is there an easy way of getting CFFI to print a list of search paths after it explodes because it could not find a shared library?
6:15:37
fouric
Fare: of course - I was just hoping for something easy, because otherwise I'll just start putting symlinks in /usr/lib or something
6:24:13
beach
Fare: I mean ~ is pronounced in the south just like ? is pronounced both in the north and in the south.
6:26:23
fouric
(you could explain it here if you wanted, but if you have a good resource, no need to consume your time...)
6:27:07
beach
fouric: Cleavir has a large collection of protocols. Such a collection is sometimes referred to as a "framework".
6:56:05
patrixl
beach: sorry. my fingers have been having trouble typing properly today, and this time missed the whole /join part of that line..
7:02:23
beach
The other day, you had a very long conversation completely unrelated to Common Lisp. Just reminding you about the topic.
7:05:19
st_iron
do i understand well that cons cells are just like single linked lists, and the car contains the value, the cdr the pointer to the next item?
7:11:40
beach
siraben: Sure you can transform to CPS, but you still don't have call/cc. Also, CPS pretty much requires tail-call optimization which the standard doesn't require.
7:26:06
Fare
passing your code thru a CPT is fine, but then all library code has to go thru the same CPT, or else
9:00:57
jack_rabbit
asdf is giving me 'Component "package html-convert" not found' when trying to load one of my projects. html-convert.lisp is a file in my project, and listed under components as :file.
9:01:28
jack_rabbit
It's not listed as a package dependency. Any ideas what I'm doing wrong? I've never run into this before.
9:02:21
beach
jack_rabbit: So you are probably using a package prefix or IN-PACKAGE before you do the DEFPACKAGE.
9:03:05
beach
are you sure about the message. There seems to be a space in the name of the component.
11:57:40
cuso4
And I get a floating point overflow error. But I can't seem to find anything online on how to solve it
12:11:47
Bike
if you deal with really big values, you might have to finesse it to avoid computing that huge intermediate value that you then take the sqrt of, but i don't know how to do that off the top of my head
12:14:48
cuso4
Of ccourse you could use some numerical methods too, but my current solution is good enough.