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Supposedly, the engine behind the iPhone's new Siri feature has been under development for several years (spawned from the CALO project). It is said that they even developed a new programming language specifically for it.
I can't find information about it anywhere. The only possible leads are academic papers, but I am not in an university network, so I don't have access to most of them.
Does anyone have any leads, examples, or even something vague as "it is similar to Prolog" or perhaps "it is a dialect of Lisp"?
In terms of the Siri work, the direct predecessor ( http://www.sri.com/about/siri-timeline.html), the Personalized Assistant that Learns (PAL) Program, did produce an "agent-based language/framework" SPARK (not to be confused with SPARK Ada). They have publicly available documentation on it http://www.ai.sri.com/~spark/, https://pal.sri.com/CALOfiles/cstore/PAL-publications/calo/2005/IntrotoSPARK.pdf, and http://www.ai.sri.com/pubs/files/1023.pdf (and an Eclipse plugin, apparently). This is very different from a general-purpose programming language. The "language" is more of a language in the sense that it models a specific formalism for planning and knowledge representation (think semantic web rather than programming language). The framework itself is hosted in Python and sometimes Java.
From this blog post:
Siri has developed a new programming language and GUI for the API web.
This is huge, although it’s too bad that it’s so early and so hidden.
There is a video in that blog post that shows the owner of the website interviewing two important figures from Siri, and they discuss what you asked about and much more.
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I would to know which one choose MarkLogic vs MongoDB, I know its properties but in term of learning which one is more acceptable to choose? I have chosen MarkLogic but I think it's difficult to learn because it has a lot of documentation and it hasn't much comunity developers.
I have to choose one option for project our company and my boss is worried about MarkLogic's curve learning.
Help me which one choose.
Disclosure: I work for MarkLogic.
You mention your concern about learning how to work with MarkLogic. We have a MarkLogic University team that has excellent training resources. Take a look at their Developer Track courses. These courses are free and are available with in-person, via-Internet, or self-paced formats. Once you've learned the basics, you can follow that up with tutorials, the technical blog, On Demand videos, guides, and maybe a local Meetup, based on your needs. Our community may not be as big, but those who work with MarkLogic tend to be very helpful. You can post specific technical questions here on Stack Overflow.
The bigger question is what do you need from your database? For that, I'll join #Tamas in referring to his article comparing the two.
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I am new at Programing and to Swift. I understand the basic syntax and how to do all the common things from reading Apple's "The Swift Programming Language". But I cannot find any good documentation with examples and beginner explanations on implementing iOS Background app refresh. I have tried many Swift tutorial websites, I've turned to Google, and even searched through Apple's own web documentation, and have so far haven't had success. How does one go about implementing Background app refresh in an iOS app (using Swift)?
It depends on the type of learner you are. There are plenty of valuable resources I can recommend you. To mention a few:
Swift Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide (2nd Edition)
A book that contains well explained Swift concepts where authors reinforce what you learned throughout practice and challenges at the end of each chapter. Highly recommended.
Swift 3 Essential Training: The Basics
A course from Lynda.com with high reputation in which they explain professionally Swift concepts through examples. Personally recommended.
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I am looking for Pubnub alternatives in Codename One for real time communication. Are there available cn1libs for Pusher for example? If there is not one, is it possible to write a cn1lib using the existing Android and iOS libraries for Pusher?
I really like pubnub and it has a pretty generous free tier but these sort of discussions are discouraged on stackoverflow so I'll answer the question of "Is it possible to write a cn1lib using the existing Android/iOS libraries of an SDK?"
Yes. We even have a tutorial on doing this in the developer guide here. Steve also made some videos covering the subject here.
We have not explicitly tried our Ably realtime client libraries with Codename One, however they are built with portable Java and should therefore work. We are a very appealing alternative to PubNub and Pusher.
Matt, co-founder of Ably: simply better realtime
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I wan't to get introduced to the fundamental concepts of Category Theory, from a developer's perspective (not a math student), but every single resource I see uses Haskel, Scala, F# or other highly-focused languages that I don't use.
Are there any resources for the rest of us?
MIT has an some course material online for Category Theory for Scientists. There is also a textbook you can download as well.
Pierce's Basic Category Theory for Computer Scientists fits your description. It is in no way tied to any particular programming language.
When learning category theory It's good to have examples to work from. If you don't have examples from mathematics, and you don't have examples from specific programming languages, it might be hard to motivate the subject.
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The question says it all: I'm looking for working, open source, implementations of algorithms (or derivatives there of) initially described in the Boids paper.
It looks like most of the code out there was written before "Open Source" really meant anything. I asked Mr Google:
Craig Reynolds's Boids page has a bunch of links for various languages and some mostly-original Lisp. Embedding a Lisp interpreter should not be that hard.
Christopher Kline, C++, Not-For-Profit. Licence terms for commercial apps negotiable with the author.
Tom Bak, Thong Chau, Visual C++/OpenGL/GLUT, no licence. You could try contacting them.
Robert Platt, VC++/D3D, no licence. You could try contacting him too.
You're unlikely to find anything specifically "for the iOS" (or even written in Objective-C), but C and C++ versions should be easy to port. .NET versions should be easy enough to run using MonoTouch.
This might help: Chapter from Killer game programming in Java about Flocking Boids