From one perspective, categories are just another algebraic structure, like groups, monoids and rings. They are these abstract things that have some abstract equational axioms and operations. They are the next stop on our magnificent category journey. A m... (more…)

As an IRC bot enthusiast and tinkerer, I would like to describe the most enduring and popular bot I've written, a markov-chain bot. Markov chains can be used to generate realistic text, and so are great fodder for IRC bots. The bot I am writing of has b... (more…)

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As mentioned above, Fisher’s LDA is a dimension reduction technique. Such techniques can primarily be used to reduce the dimensionality for high-dimensional data. People do this for multiple reasons - dimension reduction as feature extraction, dimension r... (more…)

While this is a book on the Hy Lisp language, we have a wider theme here. In an age where artificial intelligence (AI) is a driver of the largest corporations and government agencies, the question is how do individuals and small organizations take advanta... (more…)