The Little Learner

Daniel P. Friedman is Professor of Computer Science in the School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering at Indiana University and is the author of many books published by the MIT Press, including The Little Schemer and The Seasoned Schemer (with Matthias Felleisen); The Little Prover (with Carl Eastlund); and The Reasoned Schemer (with William E. Byrd, Oleg Kiselyov, and Jason Hemann).

Anurag Mendhekar is Cofounder and President of Paper Culture, where he focuses on developing artificial intelligence for creativity, and an entrepreneur. He started his career at Xerox´s Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), where he was one of the inventors of aspect-oriented programming. His career has spanned a range of technologies including distributed systems, image and video compression, and video distribution for VR.

Foreword by Guy L. Steele Jr. xi
Foreword by Peter Norvig xiii
Preface xix
Transcribing to Scheme xxiii
0. Are You Schemish? 2
1. The Lines Sleep Tonight 18
2. The More We Learn, the Tenser We Become 30
Interlude I. The More We Extend, the Less Tensor We Get 46
3. Running Down a Slippery Slope 56
4. Slip-slidin' Away 72
Interlude II. Too Many Toys Make Us Hyperactive 92
5. Target Practice 98
Interlude III. The Shape of Things to Come 112
6. An Apple a Day 116
7. The Crazy "ates" 130
8. The Nearer Your Destination, the Slower You Become 144
Interlude IV. Smooth Operator 154
9. Be Adamant 162
Interlude V. Extensio Magnifico! 176
10. Doing the Neuron Dance 194
11. In Love with the Shape of Relu 212
12. Rock Around the Block 236
13. An Eye for an Iris 250
Interlude VI. How the Model Trains 270
Interlude VII. Are Your Signals Crossed? 282
14. It's Really Not That Convoluted 298
15. ...But It Is Correlated! 320
Epilogue. We've Only Just Begun 342
Appendix A. Ghost in the Machine 350
Appendix B. I Could Have Raced All Day 374
Acknowledgments 399
References 401
Index 402