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An agent in 100 lines of Lisp


Around 2000 I took an AI course at the University of Guelph. I don’t think I learned too much. We didn’t talk about neural networks, as far as I can remember. My end of term project was, I think, a pathfinding algorithm wearing an AI costume. There were certainly no discussions of transformers. No CUDA. No PyTorch. None of that existed. But what I remember doing a lot of was coding in Lisp - a lot of Lisp in the dark University of Guelph CIS lab.

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