Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 09:36:32 -0500 From: "Smith III, Edward Mr. CAA/ISC" <ed.smithiii@us.army.mil> To: "Ryan Sommers" <ryans@gamersimpact.com>, "Street Chaman" <street_chaman@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: RE: - I A - (was Kernel mode programming - precisions) Message-ID: <0A907D6523E90246822D32FA2344E244015DC2@CAA-UNCLMAIL.caa.army.mil>
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As a note to Ryan's post, a lot of AI people are using Lisp for programming their apps. One of the best books on AI (and consequently, Lisp) is the following: "Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming: Case Studies In Common Lisp" by Peter Norvig (who is one of the Google founders) Web page of his that has tons of AI papers: www.norvig.com Check this stuff out. These are some great resources. I hope this helps. v/r ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Ed Smith, CISSP Senior Engineer Information Sciences Corporation Center for Army Analysis 6001 Goethals Rd. Fort Belvoir, V.A. 22060 1-703-806-5063 "War, war, war. This war talk is spoiling the conversation at every party this spring!" -Scarlet O'Hara -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Ryan Sommers Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2005 11:48 PM To: Street Chaman Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: - I A - (was Kernel mode programming - precisions) Street Chaman wrote: > NOTE: THIS IS NOT A JOKE. > > I don't know if it is the right place to post this; I actually don't > know even if I should post this; but, before giving it up because of my > own limits, I have to write down what I was trying to do. Maybe someone > will be interested in; maybe someone will finish it. > This is a fine (the best) place to post all the questions you have asked. Few things to note: 1) Don't keep changing subject lines. By leaving your subject line as is you aid not only those reading their list mail in a threaded view, but those that search google or the archives have a much easier time following the logical progression of the discussion. 2) I'm not sure (nor have I looked) if you are the '- Felix -' that posted about kernel mode programming, but same thing goes as for the subject line; it helps us make sense of the conversation if you leave your From: header line somewhat similar. Congratulations on thinking up an idea and trying to put it into code. That can sometimes be the hardest thing to do in a project; seconded by choosing the name of the first source file to write. I'm still not sure why timing was so critical for an AI (artificial intelligence) application. However, for something like artificial intelligence I would *definitely* not choose to write it in assembly. C or Java should provide a good higher-level language to begin in. Although I have no real experience in AI, I hear a lot of designers are using languages like Scheme, ML, Haskel or even Prolog, I believe, for this area of computer science. Although if you aren't familiar with functional languages I'm not sure I'd consider this as a first project to undertake in one. Choosing a higher-level language could probably save you a lot of hair pulling over assembly. I would write your ideas in a high-level language first. Then once you've thoroughly determined the algorithm isn't at fault through profiling look at the generated assembly and see how you can squeeze out the extra cycles. The other benefit is the obvious portability one. Sharing your AI ideas with others will be quite limited if you constrain yourself to a single architecture and ISA. -- Ryan Sommers ryans@gamersimpact.com _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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