Hi Olwe, Liitin (liitin.finndesign.fi) wasn't originally designed to assimilate humankind, but now that you mention it, it seems like a perfect means to it. Feeding new data and functionality and distributing them is made easy, versatile networking and parallel computation are also built-in. There is quite a lot to it, so you may want to check the above project page.
Another, AI-related project of mine, however is likely to get there first. It is based on genetic programming and it evolves by itself/herself/themselves - even as we speak - but you can also feed it new skills. It uses those skills as black-box functionality, however it may freely expand their usage in new situations or challenge them with its own solutions. It pretty much does what it wants, really. I merely gave it a starting point. Either way, resistance is futile. Borg enough for you? :) Both projects are Racket-based and lean heavily on dynamic evaluation and efficient re-use of existing work. I'm doomed to be a permanent beginner, so if I can do this, anyone can. Good luck and keep us informed on your progress! br, jukka On Tue, 2012-05-01 at 16:33 -0400, Eli Barzilay wrote: > 30 minutes ago, Olwe Melwasul wrote: > > > > Is anyone thinking along these lines? It seems like an environment > > like Lisp/ Scheme with so much blurring of data and code, with > > homoiconicity (why live without it?), with a REPL able to take new > > code on the fly would be getting there. [...] > > Sounds like you should look into Liitin. > > > > But then I've heard people from PLT/Racket downplaying the whole > > dynamic feeding of a REPL. > > (Not really.) > ____________________ Racket Users list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/users
