Monday's Lambda Lounge

[Rick Moynihan]

Hi all,

Does anybody have any nice ideas about what to do at this Monday's
Lambda Lounge? Talks... topics... activities...

Rick
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[Daniel Silverstone]

Not sure I can turn up, but if I do, I don't think I should speak/present since I did last month.  More on logic stuff might be interesting.

[James Jeffries]

I can make it on Monday for the first time in ages and I'd be happy to briefly report back on some interesting points from the Functional Programming Exchange. I don't have much time to prepare over the weekend so it might be a bit basic, but if people are interested I'd be happy to see what I can put together.

[Daniel Silverstone]

Sounds interesting to me.

[Simon Holgate]

I can come on Monday too.

If anyone is interested in having a go at Battleships in Clojure I'm already set up and ready to go:

https://github.com/simonholgate/battleships

Simon

Sounds interesting to me.

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[Rick Moynihan]

Wow, this is great... two fantastic ideas... what to do? :-)

James, how much do you have to tell us? Looking at the website it
looks like there were some interesting talks :-)

I'd love to squeeze both in... but experience tells me, we'll probably
need at least the whole two hours to do anything with battleships....

So perhaps James could talk to us a bit about the FP exchange, and
Simon could do a short talk on battleships... perhaps taking us
through the code implementation etc...

Then perhaps next month (or the month after) we could run a battleships event?

I also asked Ian (Johnson) if he'd be willing to talk about his
pypline project, which is an implementation of arrows in Python for
composing transformation pipelines. My understanding is he's using
this to orchestrate automated (natural language) translation across
relatively large infrastructures... but I'm just half-remembering what
he's told me about it, whilst I've been drinking Dobber %-) ... So I
suspect he'd rather give the talk next month or the month after...

It'd also be good to line up a few months of talks / events in
advance... As it makes promoting events a lot easier.

What do you guys think?


R.

[Simon Holgate]

That's fine with me. When we ran the dojo in Liverpool we still found a significant overhead in understanding the code do spending some time on that this week is a good idea. We could try a group programming exercise next time if you like. 

S

[James Jeffries]

There was some interesting talks, specifically Simon Peyton Jones talking on type innovation in Haskell, David Pollak talking about Lift 3.0 and Greg Young talking about functional event sourcing, but a lot of the rest (while interesting) might be hard to condense down or regurgitate.

I don't mind holding off until a later date and working on battleships this month. It would give me a chance to read into some of the things I heard in the talks, in particular GADTs in Haskell. This also has the advantage of letting us start lining up a few more talks in advance. Although if it was the preferred option I'd be happy to put something together for Monday. 

What do you think?

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[Rick Moynihan]

Cool,

Battleships it is!

Simon, it sounds like we're agreed it'd be a good idea to spend a
session talking more about the implementation, strategies for winning,
how it works etc... with a future session on actually doing it.

James, perhaps you could informally tell us about the FP exchange on
Monday, and we can schedule you in for a full-talk in a future month.

Ian, we'll pencil your pypline talk in too!

R.

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[Simon Holgate]

OK, great. I'll spend some time talking about the battleships code then.

See you tomorrow!

[Rick Moynihan]

Awesome!

Many thanks guys!

See you all tomorrow!

Rick

[Daniel Silverstone]

I just wanted to say that despite the hiccough with the projector, I really enjoyed the talk through of the code on Monday.

It has reduced my fear of Clojure, that's for sure ;-)

D.

See you tomorrow!

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[Simon Holgate]

I'm glad that you enjoyed it. It wasn't the slickest presentation, for sure ;)

I learnt some more about it through the discussion too, which is always useful. Particularly in the discussion of an alternative implementation of the game state with an atom.

The writing of players next time should be really good fun.