Loving Common Lisp, or the Savvy Programmer's Secret Weapon

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Common Lisp, artificial intelligence, knowledge representation, LLMs, neural networks, deep learning

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Loving Common Lisp, or the Savvy Programmer's Secret Weapon50 chapters

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  1. Cover Material, Copyright, and License

  2. Preface

  3. Introduction

  4. Common Lisp Basics

  5. Quicklisp

  6. Defining Lisp Functions

  7. Defining Common Lisp Macros

  8. Using Common Lisp Loop Macros

  9. Common Lisp Package System

  10. Input and Output

  11. Plotting Data

  12. Common Lisp Object System - CLOS

  13. Network Programming

  14. One Interface for Brave, Tavily, and Perplexity Web Search APIs

  15. Accessing Relational Databases

  16. Natural Language Processing

  17. Information Gathering Using DBPedia Lookup

  18. Web Scraping

  19. Backpropagation Neural Networks

  20. Hopfield Neural Networks

  21. Anomaly Detection

  22. Semantic Web and Linked Data

  23. Implementing a Simple RDF Datastore and Partial SPARQL Support in Common Lisp

  24. Automatically Generating Data for Knowledge Graphs

  25. Knowledge Graph Sampler for Creating Small Custom Knowledge Graphs

  26. Knowledge Graph Navigator Common Library Implementation

  27. Knowledge Graph Navigator Text-Based User Interface

  28. Knowledge Graph Navigator User Interface Using LispWorks CAPI

  29. Building a MicroGPT in Common Lisp

  30. One Library, Many LLM Providers: the litelm Library

  31. Advanced Reasoning with World Models and LLMs: The llm-reasoning Library

  32. Using Local LLMs With Ollama

  33. Image Processing With Local Ollama Models

  34. Knowledge Base Navigator: Building an AI-Powered Information System

  35. Interfacing with External Programs: A Lightpanda Browser Client

  36. Using a Local Document Embeddings Vector Database for Semantically Querying Your Own Data

  37. Agentic RAG Using the Gemini LLM APIs

  38. Prompt Engineering for Large Language Models

  39. Client Library for the Google Gemini LLM APIs

  40. AutoContext: Prepare Effective Prompts with Context for LLM Queries

  41. AI-Powered Text Adventure Game

  42. Symbolic Mathematics in Common Lisp

  43. WebKit Applications - macOS Only

  44. A Persistent LLM Cache with SQLite

  45. A Daily-Use Gemini REPL with Search Grounding and Persistent Cache

  46. Building an AI Coding Assistant for Common Lisp

  47. Hacking the SBCL REPL

  48. Building a Neural-Symbolic Knowledge Graph Engine in Common Lisp

  49. Overview of Probability

  50. Book Wrapup