Nikodemus Siivola writes:
On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 03:23:56PM -0500, Anthony Ventimiglia wrote:
Now back to the subject since we talked about it, I'd like to start a project "cl-bayes" that will be a Bayesian Patter filtering library.
Oops, sorry. I missed this in my first reply. ;)
I must echo the questions of Erik and Mario.
For all of you LGPL, sorry I forgot to mention that, sorry I guess my request was a bit informal.
Also, IMHO cl-bayes is really not quite kosher as far as names go: there are a zillion things a bayenesian filter can do, and a zillion ways it can be implementead. CL-BAYES and BAYES both suggests a certain naturality. How about some name that contains "bayes", but is not "it".
I have to say I don't see your point, but I also haven't given much thought to the name. My original Library I did in C++ is called libbpfl (Bayesian Pattern Filtering Library), and it is a specific goal of mine to make it useful as a general purpose Bayesian filter, as I've wanted to experiment with different applications for Bayesian Filters (most interesting to me would be image and sound pattern recognition).
Now I pretty much intent to make the Lisp library very similar in it's use to my C++ library, so maybe I should stick to something similar. But to tell you the truth I wasn't wild about bpfl, I think Bayes and Bayeslib had already been taken at sourceforge. So the name cl-bayes was really not much of a big deal, to be honest I kind of have an aversion to the whole cl- prefix that predominates, but on the other hand it's kind of like the lib prefix for C packages, when you see cl- you know it's a Common Lisp (or library application package).
But as far as the cl- has to do with the name the only reason I had that was that you would knoe it is a common lisp library for bayesian filtering. I don't see how that doesn't reflect the zillion potential uses for Bayesian filters. I have no deep love for cl-bayes, but I don't really understand your point about why its a bad name.
Thanks
Anthony