Re: [Caml-list] Ocaml programmers interested in human-level AI

[Ben Millwood <bmillwood@janestreet.com>]

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Let's not turn this into a (nother) thread about build systems.

On 11 January 2015 at 11:39, Gerd Stolpmann <info@gerd-stolpmann.de> wrote:

> Am Samstag, den 10.01.2015, 21:13 +0300 schrieb Peter Zotov:
> > On 2015-01-10 19:29, Eray Ozkural wrote:
> > > Dear Ocaml list,
> > >
> > > I would be very pleased if the members who have a lasting interest in
> > > the subject of human-level AI would network with me. We have a startup
> > > working on that subject. Our code base is mainly in ocaml, and our
> > > team might need some extra programmers in the near future. Although
> > > this is not a formal job advertisement (yet), those who would like to
> > > get in touch may just send me a mail for meeting and briefly introduce
> > > themselves. I would very much welcome such personal networking and
> > > getting to know fellow functional programming hackers who are also
> > > interested in advancing the state-of-the-art in machine learning.
> >
> > Do you think that once implemented, such an AI would be able
> > to implement a decent build system for OCaml?
> > I think it would be a very worthwhile goal.
>
> FYI, I'm currently hacking on the performance problems of omake for very
> large builds (sponsored by Lexifi), and I'm making progress. My test
> project with 4096 modules is now built in 7 minutes instead of 24
> (single core). It's a fairly interesting exercise to view the build
> system from the perspective of a performance engineer, e.g. I'm
> currently redesigning the target cache that is backing the
> interpretation of the "ocamldep -modules" output to quickly find the
> files corresponding to the modules.
>
> Gerd
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