Ask HN: Is SICP/HtDP still worth reading in 2023? Any alternatives?

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  • hy

    A dialect of Lisp that's embedded in Python

  • “Python is for scientists. Lisp is for engineers.”

    Then what does that make Hy language?

    https://hylang.org/

    Re Languages with lots of example code and LLM’s

    With translators or things like Hy lang, one could get the LLM’s to solve your problem in Python before converting it to another form. Then, you just need a translator. If lacking one, it’s easy to translate by hand.

    The practicality of this concept will probably vary by use case. My experiments had GPT doing sketching, implementations, boilerplate, and even porting Python to Rust. A legally-clear LLM trained on multiple languages could probably be fine-tuned to do Python to LISP conversions. If not, Hy might be a stepping stone, too.

  • llama_farm

    Use local llama LLM or openai to chat, discuss/summarize your documents, youtube videos, and so on.

  • It's funny that you asked that and then someone posted an app that's almost entirely Hy language. I'm just sharing it so you have one example:

    https://github.com/atisharma/llama_farm/tree/main

    The AI's have limited ability to either handle large documents or track conversations. This tool is an attempt to solve that problem. It works with OpenAI and open-source AI's.

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