From: jason r tibbetts <tibbettj@...>
Date: 2005-06-22T01:50:59+09:00
Subject: Re: Truth maintenance system in Ruby

James Edward Gray II wrote:
> On Jun 17, 2005, at 12:35 PM, Matthew Desmarais wrote:
> 
>> I'm waiting to get involved with my first Ruby Quiz, and that might  
>> be fun!  It'd be a good excuse to re-visit the AI stuff that bored  me 
>> when I was required to study it for a class...
> 
> 
> Yeah, I've been looking to do some simple AI problems.  I would love  to 
> find a not-too-complicated genetics algorithm quiz too.
> 
> Anybody who writes up any ideas like this and sends them in before I  
> get around to them will be my hero...

I'm not volunteering to write anything up, but implementing a Bayesian 
inference engine in Ruby sounds like the kind of task that would take a 
day or two. I'll look in Sussman and Abelson's /The Structure and 
Interpretation of Computer Programs/ 
(http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book.htm). Those 
comfortable with Lisp/Scheme can take a gander at section 4.4.4 for 
inspiration 
(http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book-Z-H-29.html#%_sec_4.4.4)