Minikanren enthusiasts: meet Medikanren https://www.uab.edu/mix/stories/a-high-speed-dr-house-for-medical-breakthroughs
@cwebber expert systems come back from the grave
or were they ever really dead
@KitRedgrave maybe the ai winter was really just an ai cryogenic freeze
@cwebber i would love to know how they deal with ingesting all these papers and generating a suitable knowledge representation. are they using a different machine for that?
@KitRedgrave looks like it's all stored locally in a CSV. You can run it: https://github.com/webyrd/mediKanren
@KitRedgrave HAHA AWESOME
if I'm reading this write it loads it all into racket hashtables and then serializes them as racket files https://github.com/webyrd/mediKanren/blob/master/code/db.rkt
@notclacke @KitRedgrave Note that I didn't have the full story:
> There's a little more to it. Greg Rosenblatt created a nice, efficient graph database in Racket that is fast when reading data from disk. Works very well in practice! :)