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Hey all, a full release of #sicmutils is on its way, but I wanted to share a fully fleshed out Clojure(script) implementation of Power Series that I've just pushed, built with all the beauty of Clojure's lazy sequences: https://github.com/littleredcomputer/sicmutils/blob/master/src/sicmutils/series/impl.cljc
I wrote it in literate programming style, so I'm sharing it in case anyone here's power-curious and wants to see how to do all sorts of arithmetic operations on infinite series (so wild). This is a port (and slight extension of) Doug McIlroy's functional pearl, "Power Series, Power Serious" http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.333.3156&rep=rep1&type=pdf
For context, this fits into the SICMUtils project as one of the backbone-required-types for a computer algebra system that can run in the browser. The API that wraps it, and makes the series implement IFn etc, lives here: https://github.com/littleredcomputer/sicmutils/blob/master/src/sicmutils/series.cljc
Feedback welcome, and I'd love to hear if this is interesting! (Again, larger release on the way, but this is a fun read on its own.)
This is very cool! I went through the first chapter of sicm last year, but in scheme. Great to see this library ported to clojure, I'll use it if I try going through the rest of the book. Anything you need help with?
Hi @posobin! that's awesome, would love your feedback. That's a good Q - it depends on what you're interested in. The bigger aim I've got is integration into Maria.cloud, a vision I describe here: https://roadtoreality.substack.com/p/the-dynamic-notebook
so one answer is, there are lots of pieces of the library that I've found really rewarding to work on. if you have a hunger to learn about functional numerics in Clojure, I can help you navigate , and there is a LOT to port from scmutils (not used by the book but very cool) that would be awesome. reverse mode automatic differentiation would be another I'd love help on
another answer is, I had completed many of the exercises for the project in scheme, and plan on porting them to Clojure, and then putting them into Maria: https://github.com/sritchie/sicm
so that would be great. But this is only a good answer if you're interested in the guts of the library, or going farther with the book!
lmk if you do any more of the book, and would love feedback on the Clojure port if you do try it. Thanks again!
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