As I continue my forays with Clojure, I’m finding it enjoyable (if not entirely productive) to hack with it on Cryogen, a nifty little blog generator I already discussed recently. On Sunday I had the privilege of making my first pull request. The essence of the PR was to fix a couple of bugs with the existing implementation of the logic for generating a Table of Contents for a given blog post, and also replace a less robust algorithm (for real-life use cases) with a more robust one. ...

• programming
• clojure

As a continuation of my forays in interesting and less industrially-oriented programming languages, I decided to compare F Sharp against Clojure for a relatively simple programming problem, and to compare how the two felt in terms of programming ease, friendliness, and how they each viewed the problem. The Problem The problem is a relatively one from Reddit’s “Daily Programmer” subreddit, called JSON Treasure Hunt: given a random, unstructured JSON object, traverse the object looking for a specific terminal value (in this case, a string “dailyprogrammer”). ...

• programming
• clojure
• f-sharp

It’s been a long while since I last blogged. My last post dates back to April of 2014, shortly before I graduated from Rutgers Engineering. My life since then has been a bit of a whirlwind. I’ve since graduated, moved to the Upper West Side, started working in banking, gotten engaged and married, and moved out. I suppose I could be forgiven for not blogging as actively. Why I Took Down My Old Blog My old blog was running on Ghost, a nifty JavaScript-based modern reimagination of the classic web-based blogging platform. ...

• meta
• clojure
• python

As part of my forays in interesting (and generally unusable at work) programming languages, I began investigating Clojure back in June. Although I really love the language as a whole (and, in fact, I’m using it to power this blog!), I struggled not only to set it up, but to find its ideal niche. This essay/rant is a result of a conversation I had about Clojure with two friends, one who is an excellent polyglot programmer, and one who is a beginner simply interested in Clojure as a practical Lisp. ...

• programming
• clojure

Last Friday, I had the chance to attend a panel of career technologists and data scientists who all work in the fascinating field known as “big data”. “Big data” is an umbrella term to describe data whose qualities are so atypical that classical data analysis techniques fail to even begin to tackle understanding them. The data can be in any conceivable format and in any field of study. For instance, in news analysis, “How are news articles relevantly accessed when more arrive in a single day than a person can read in a lifetime? ...

• big-data