Author Archives: Justin Kramer

Clojure & Python, Side by Side

Posted on March 29, 2011

As an exercise, I translated Peter Norvig’s Sudoku solver from Python to Clojure. There have been a couple other attempts before, but they both leaned on Clojure’s reference types as a mutability-crutch. This implementation uses only immutable data structures. To … Continue reading →

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Launched YumTab

Posted on January 24, 2011

My side project, which uses Clojure and some basic machine learning to extract recipe information from websites, has launched: YumTab. I’ll be updating the blog periodically with progress reports and possibly some juicy technical info.

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Say something nice about every programming language you’ve used

Posted on December 9, 2010

Prompted by this blog post, an attempt to say something nice about every language I’ve used, roughly in the order that I learned them: Pascal – My first love. Allowed me to create awesome text adventures, even though the code … Continue reading →

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Fun with Clojure: Turning Cats into Dogs in Hanoi

Posted on August 27, 2010

Finding a Connection I’ve been having fun brushing up on basic graph theory lately. It’s amazing how many problems can be modeled with it. To that end, I did a code kata the other day that lent itself to a … Continue reading →

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