Learning Clojure and CLJS by playing a card game

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Builds a playable Gin Rummy system in Clojure: a pixel-reading Java Robot that screenshots the desktop, samples a few top-left pixels to recognize cards and drives the mouse; a browser version as a ClojureScript web client with drag/drop UI; a server backed by Datomic with t-based time travel to snapshot game state and handle reconnects. Porting from Scheme favors maps over lists. Attempts at a self-play neural-net AI run into local‑optima learning problems and need better exploration.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 4:39Functional programming with Scheme
3. 9:00Gin Rummy robot in Clojure
4. 16:26ClojureScript and web dev
5. 24:46Clojure tools for projects
6. 31:03AI experiments and insights

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