That does sound interesting. Also for the fact that I'd never seen clojure and javascript living in the same codebase, I was expecting python for data handling.

That does sound interesting. Also for the fact that I'd never seen clojure and javascript living in the same codebase, I was expecting python for data handling. But I digress. I believe there's a lot to do to find reason in out fundamental unreason as human beings and looks like lots of smart people have ventured into solving this problem. I guess not all is lost yet for humanity!