[Noisebridge-discuss] ML Wednesday: code up a neuron!

[Christoph Maier]

On Tue, 2009-03-10 at 15:05 -0700, Josh Myer wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 02:56:41PM -0700, Mikolaj Habryn wrote:
>  
> > I think most languages will look similar if written in accessible
> > style. Real Python would say:
> > 
> 
> That's why I wrote the ruby in the most naive form possible.  It's
> like pseudocode with a slightly different syntax.
> 
> > import operator
> > 
> > def dot_product(a, b):
> >   return sum(map(operator.mul, a, b))
> >
> 
> I hate to yield the elegance plaque to python, but, well, it looks
> like I must.  That's just nice, clean functional code.
> 
> The most functional version in ruby I could pull together:
> 
> def dot_product(a, b)
>   a.zip(b).inject(0.0) { |s, x| s+x[0]*x[1] }
> end
>  
> > Which just goes to show that most high-level languages look the same
> > when written in real style too ;)
> > 
> 
> Sadly, ruby looks less like real languages than python does here.
> Drat.  It does smell kind of like a handicapped lisp, at least?

Speaking of handicapped Lisp, what is a poor Mathematica addict supposed
to do?
The Dot[] function looks like this:

.

(as in 
DuNervst = Function[{gewichte,stimuli},Tanh[gewichte.stimuli]] 
)

Ok, this is a commercial program and kind of off topic here. 
Mea maxima
[ http://maxima.sourceforge.net/docs/manual/en/maxima_25.html#SEC85 ]
culpa. 

Hope I can make it from San Diego in time for tomorrow night!

Christoph