Date: July 7, 2009
Location: Linux Caffe
Attending: - Doug Hoyte
- Abram Hindle
- Vish Singh
- Mark Bolusmjak
- Paul Tarvydas
- Rick Innis
This was a general discussion meeting. - Vish brought in his recently received copy of Programming Clojure, by Stuart Halloway.
- Mark brought in The Reasoned Schemer and The Seasoned Schemer.
- Doug asks: If you had a machine with millions of processors to run parallel processing jobs on, what would you do with it?
- Abram's idea: Do an analysis of a user's local music library, e.g. run a pairwise determination of song similarity, and cluster music into groups.
- Doug on Antiweb; uses a multiple-process architecture similar to qmail (actually inspired by qmail).
- Doug is going to write a paper on the use of Berkeley DB in Antiweb, including a comparison with Clojure.
- Mark talked about how pmap (parallel map) works in Clojure, how it processes the lazy sequence ahead by a few elements, depending on how many CPUs you have.
- Rick suggested that we work out Project Euler problems as a fun club project.
- We looked at Abram's website and some papers on the analysis of code complexity via indentation.
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