[toronto-lisp] My notes of the Toronto Lisp Meeting <2009-12-01 Tue>

[Abram Hindle]

* Lisp meeting
  <2009-12-01 Tue>
  - Emacs
    - Defunkt mode
  - XONG
  - Google talk
    - sawzi
  - Sawzall
    - Google and machine learning on large datasets
    - Interpreting the Data: Parallel Analysis with Sawzall

      > Title: Extreme Data Mining: Machine Learning in Adwords and
Google Product Search
      > Date: Monday, November 30, 2009 at 5pm.
      > Location: Institute for Quantum Computing, 475 Wes Graham Way,
2nd Floor (RAC Seminar Room)
      > Map URL: http://bit.ly/InstQuantumComputing
      > Admission: Free (Google's mission is to organize the world's
information and make it
      universally available and useful)
      > This Doc URL: http://bit.ly/ExtremeDataMining
  - Reader Macros
    - by doug
      - builds up lists
      - frames
      - read delimited list
      - security issues with #.
      - how to ignore errors
        - potential DOS
      - http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/lw50/CLHS/Body/f_rd_del.htm
      - read CL by guy steele, table with each character
        - the readtable
      - backquote is code..
        - meant to be eval'd
          - `(print ,a) -> (list print value-of-a)
            - nested backquote.. uhhhh
  - Reserve our meeting next time, those android devs are trying to
infringe on our turf
  - Serialization
    - define a generic
      - print-method
        - roll your own
    - more readermacro stuff
      - how to deal with transients
        - #<> can't be deserialized
    -  Possible modules
       http://www.cl-user.net/asp/libs/bdb
       http://www.cl-user.net/asp/libs/bknr
       http://www.cl-user.net/asp/libs/clouchdb
       http://www.cl-user.net/asp/libs/elephant
       http://www.cl-user.net/asp/libs/PLOB
       http://common-lisp.net/project/clouchdb/
       http://cl-user.net/asp/libs/cl-store
       http://common-lisp.net/project/cl-perec/
  - why FSFS was used for subversion
    http://web.mit.edu/ghudson/info/fsfs
  - Tokyo Cabinet key store
    http://www.igvita.com/2009/02/13/tokyo-cabinet-beyond-key-value-store/
    http://1978th.net/tokyocabinet/
  - Couchdb
    http://couchdb.apache.org/
  - More BDB
  - What if HDDs were as fast as memory
  - Solid state database speed
  - denormalized distributed database
  - Mandelbulb discussion
    -
  - LISP Admin
    - talks
    - we need a group
    - what do you want to hear
      - you can do it yourself too, if you want to learn real quick
    - Do you have a talk to give
      - projects?
    - Early talk announcement
    - Venue
    - Early Announcement
    - Reimplementations or analysis
    - mailinglist

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