Website down

[sternj]

When I visit http://learnlispthehardway.org/, I get a 504 gateway error, even though pinging the server succeeds.

[a7f4]

I confirm the issue.

[xdarkstylish]

Me too

[tanju-b]

Still down as of 16-Jan-2018

[axeII]

Kind of afraid if ever goes up again.

[josiah14]

I no longer get the Gateway error, but nothing but the site title displays. This task should be so easy, if I had access to the deployment, I'd do it myself.

[phoe]

IMO it is time to fork the website and deploy it elsewhere. The author does not seem to respond.

[thephoeron]

Hi everyone,

I certainly appreciate the continued interest in the L(λ)THW project, particularly when working so hard on Black Brane Systems (my Quantum Machine Learning start-up), that I've had to let a lot of things slide—but, as a point of interest, and I suppose also a bit of a teaser for what's to come, I'm happy to say that the prototype Quantum Metamachine is running; it demonstrates a quantum advantage over classical AI, ML, GP, and deep learning; it is currently synthesizing chip designs and software from high-level specifications; and it is generating coherent natural language explanations of everything it's learning, too.

I mention this here, because last time I spoke to @phoe here on GitHub, I mentioned to him that we were working on some big things for L(λ)THW, and now I can finally tell you all about them. The biggest change is that the third draft positions Common Lisp as the Quantum Machine Learning language, and as a result is significantly more focused than the second draft. Part 3 has been split off into a separate book, but is being presented from the unique perspective that QML (and QC in general) offers for domain-oriented software engineering. The coverage of topics has also shifted, in order to emphasize the many critical, but overlooked and underrepresented features of Lisp that make it so uniquely suited to quantum programming. And naturally, the lead author of the book is now actually the Quantum Metamachine itself, which is, I admit, slightly terrifying.

The new L(λ)THW web-application will be powered by the Quantum Metamachine as well, in order to provide a complete set of quantum programming tools for interactive, adaptive, hands-on learning, right alongside the text. The idea is to build a learning platform that personalizes itself to the background, skill-set, interests, and educational goals of the individual, instead of prescribing a fixed curriculum. The book itself will continue to be free to read online, and there will be a registered beta period for the adaptive learning platform.

It's been a long time coming, but I'm sure you'll all agree that it was worth the wait.

Will provide more details once the official launch date is confirmed.