Ah ok - so I may be using it wrong. I am not calling the function itself - 
I was simply trying to bind local variables in a loop.

I have placed the code into gists for easier reading!

https://gist.github.com/anonymous/5841405#file-core-clj
https://gist.github.com/anonymous/5841420#file-vec-clj

Is there another way to mimic procedural type looping?

On Saturday, June 22, 2013 2:39:01 AM UTC-4, Cedric Greevey wrote:
>
> An algorithm like that generating StackOverflowErrors suggests it's 
> recursing deeply, which suggests you're not using recur *enough*. If the 
> function calls itself, try to see if you can get that call into tail 
> position and change it to "recur".
>
>
> On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 4:06 PM, P Martin <prof.pm...@gmail.com<javascript:>
> > wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am new to clojure and I am trying to reimplement some optimization code 
>> that uses gradient descent. I have attached the source to this post. My 
>> experience with gradient descent is in Matlab, which is procedural.
>>  
>> When I run my function gradient-descent I supply step sizes and error 
>> values of 0.01, it runs correctly and gives me good results. However, if I 
>> decrease the error value below 0.001 it produces a stack overflow error. I 
>> get the same error if my step value goes down to 0.001.
>>
>> Is my looping mechanism correct and I am just having numerical 
>> limitations? Am I abusing loop/recur? Any suggestions/critiques would be 
>> great!
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Patrick
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