Everything You Need To Get Started With Common Lisp

Quick-Links for the TL;DR Crowd
About Lisp: Describes Lisp as an overview.
High Level Overview: Describes in general what is needed to program with Lisp.
All you need

SBCL
Emacs
SLIME
asdf-install

Code examples: A few rudimentary Lisp snippets.
Other Lisp Features: Features that I did not feel like explaining
Resources

About Lisp
Note: For a complete introduction, I recommend this e-book. If you only want [...]

Evolving Genetic Algorithms in Lisp

Or, now with 100% more Genetic Algorithm!
I’ve been programming a lot recently (instead of blogging about programming!). I caught the genetic algorithm bug along with the rest of the internet, so I’m in the middle of writing a Lisp library to make it easier to develop genetic algorithms: Genesis [Github link].
I’ve made some progress in [...]

Prototyping Genetic Algorithms in Lisp

Source code for Genesis is here until I get asdf-install going.

What are Genetic Algorithms?
Genetic algorithms are one of the best things that computer science has produced. Rather than figuring out a good algorithm yourself, you let your random number generator find one while you sleep! Well, after an up-front design cost to generate proper random [...]