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Interested in Computer Go? Then you probably already know about Don Dailey's excellent work on providing a number of Monte Carlo refere...

Ok, so the pattern matching idea kind of backfired. I was under the impression that a function's default arguments wouldn't be eval...

I've been rewriting the deftemplate code for MPS more or less from scratch... but I'll have to talk about that some other time. It...

All those who have tried to write a rules-based program know that there are, at least, two differences between "regular" programmi...

This is an interesting question that I think about quite a lot. I consider myself somewhat of a rule engine evangelist and I've always f...

In a recent thread on JBoss Drools' Rules Users mailing list , Mark Proctor writes: ... The Drools DRL language itself was designed as ...

I am one of the those who have been (and some still are, I guess) waiting for Geoff Wozniak to post a link to his thesis, Structuring data v...

I've been a student of Lisp(s) for roughly five years now. Unfortunately, sometimes, pretty simple bugs show up and bite me. I'm a b...

Yet another Computer Go program wins a handicap game (8 stones) against a professional Go player. Earlier today, CrazyStone (running on a P...

Yesterday we had another GothPy meeting. Apart from getting some formalities out of the way, Emily showed us how to do the FizzBuzz kata i...

In the last post I mentioned a few of the design choices I've made for the Rete Network implementation. The rest of the engine is quite...

It's difficult to talk about the MPS defrule macro and the code it expands to without first explaining the environment in which it is m...

There are three parts to my MPS (Minimal Production System) experiment, the "engine" itself and the deftemplate and defrule mac...

From the AGA newsletter (via the ComputerGo mailing list ): COMPUTER BEATS PRO AT U.S. GO CONGRESS: In a historic achievement, the MoGo com...

I've been experimenting a bit with bits and pieces of a production system in Common Lisp for a few days now. It all started as a fun exe...

From the Computer-Go mailing list : On Thursday, August 7, at 1:00 PM (Pacific time), Kim MyungWan 8p will take on MoGo , the world’s strong...

José of Programming Musings found a video with Daniel Bobrow explaining CLOS from 1987. Being somewhat of a history-geek, I really love th...

I've been doing some more work on my kōan , Sling Blade Runner . I've given up on the beam-stack search approach. I doubt it will im...

I am trying to help a CLIPS user compile his application into a Windows executable (.exe) by following the description in one of my previou...

Anwar Ghuloum's post Unwelcome advice has caused a bit of a stir recently. Probably not in the way he wanted though. The comments are ...