THE VIDEO SHELF · lisp for molecular design
Clasp: Common Lisp using LLVM and C++ for Designing Molecules
Christian Schafmeister's Google Tech Talk on Clasp and CANDO, a Common Lisp implementation on LLVM and C++ used to design molecules, including energy minimization and force-field calculations.
Why HN readers recommended it
Held up in Lisp threads as a striking example of Lisp powering cutting-edge science.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Google TechTalks
- Topic
- lisp for molecular design
- Format
- talk
- Level
- advanced
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 6
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2016–2022
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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Lisp is programmable programming language, especially Common Lisp. It works as programmer amplifier. Better you are, more you benefit from it. I challenge anyone to watch this lecture from Christian Schafmeister and say they are not impressed: [LINK] and [VIDEO]
nabla9 on Hacker News · 2016-02
In The Lisp Curse (2011)Your Google talk was one of my top 10 ever, it blew me away. It's not uncommon in the tech industry to build some mad scientist solution - pardon the expression - because we're trying to do something pedestrian but have painted ourselves in to …
reitzensteinm on Hacker News · 2020-10
In Energy Efficiency across Programming Languages [pdf]
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