Paula Gearon articles - 28 total
Repetition
Sometimes, Clojure seems to miss operations that feel like they should be in clojure.core. I'm...
Conversational AI
Having seen a few conversations with Large Language Models (LLMs) I have been interested in seeing...
Stay Classy in OWL
In an effort to publish this quickly, I am posting without proofreading. Errata is welcome. In the...
Classification
My previous post showed how to use a reasoner like Pellet to make some interesting inferences about...
What Can't I do, as a Rule?
I have recently been working with graph databases again, and with OWL descriptions of information....
How fast is dc?
I was reading Tory Anderson's blog post on writing a fast Fibonacci calculator in Clojure. He uses a...
More Immutability and Clojure
This is the second part to my post on immutability and Clojure. Missing State One...
Immutable Vars and Clojure
People often feel at a loss when they first look at languages with immutability. I know I did. How...
Asami
Motivation For a long time, I had been thinking that I would like to redesign Mulgara stor...
Asami Background #2
Mulgara (again) During my last post, I wanted to start writing about what Asami does, rath...
Asami Background
Mulgara In 2001, due to a need to store a lot of metadata and deciding that RDF was the wa...
Clojure and the JVM
I was recently talking with someone who is learning Clojure, and while learning destructuring he show...
Linux Process Memory
Process Inspection Last week I was doing (remote) computer security training with some of...
Persistent Data
Part 12 of this series in data structures. Last week I learned that Dev supports the collection of p...
Filing a Balance
In the most recent part of this series, we looked at how AVL trees are created and balanced. This pos...
Seqing an Addendum
Printing Seqs In my previous post I referred to how executable code was "list like", and w...
Seqing an Answer
Clojure List Structures I recently needed to process data structures in Clojure, handling...
A Symmetric Position
Part 10 is really just a continuation of Part 9, cleaning up the code into something a little more pr...
A Balanced Tree
Part 9 arrives after many months, following many personal events, and now a worldwide pandemic. You'l...
Clojure Transducers
With a personal life that gets in the way of writing, I've been on a short hiatus, but I do plan to r...
Save the Trees
Part 8, with part 7 back here, or go back to the beginning. Revisiting Mapped Files Now t...
Shaking the Tree
Part 7, with part 6 back here, or go back to the beginning here. A New Structure The exam...
Mapping the Way
Part 6 in a series on me trying to sort through a database design. Part 5 is here, and the beginning...
Storage
Part 5 in a series on how I'm building a database. Part 4 was here, and the beginning was here....
Buffering Up
Part 4 in this meandering journey toward durable data structures. Part 3 was here, or go back to the...
A Simple Structure in Binary
Part 3 of this story that is taking too long to get to the point. The previous part can be found here...
A Simple Structure
This is the second part of my rambling discussion on stuff I want to build. You can find the first pa...
What's with data structures?
Where I’m coming from This blog is going to ramble. That’s OK. I’m writing it for me, not...