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

49 chapters
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Loving Common Lisp, or the Savvy Programmer's Secret Weapon49 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. Using Local LLMs With Ollama

  32. Image Processing With Local Ollama Models

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

  34. Interfacing with External Programs: A Lightpanda Browser Client

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

  36. Agentic RAG Using the Gemini LLM APIs

  37. Prompt Engineering for Large Language Models

  38. Client Library for the Google Gemini LLM APIs

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

  40. AI-Powered Text Adventure Game

  41. Symbolic Mathematics in Common Lisp

  42. WebKit Applications - macOS Only

  43. A Persistent LLM Cache with SQLite

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

  45. Building an AI Coding Assistant for Common Lisp

  46. Hacking the SBCL REPL

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

  48. Overview of Probability

  49. Book Wrapup