Lambda Lounge

On June 6, we will hold the second Lambda Lounge Language Shootout. On the night of the meeting, participants will be given roughly 10 minutes to present any novel findings discovered in their solution to one of 4 possible programming challenges. Implementations can be in any language or tech stack.

The Challenges

The four challenges are:

• Counting DNA Nucleotides
• Rabbits & Recurrent Relations
• Mendel’s First Law
• WAV file format reader/player

Sharing your work

Participants are encouraged to pick one of the challenge problems, fork the git repo for this event and add their implementation, then send a pull request to get their work added to this repository. Participants should add their work under a directory with their proper name (using underscores as separators instead of spaces) or their github account identity.

Sponsor

The food (and gifts) sponsor for this meeting is Rackspace.

Yo.  Data Science.  What is it all about? Techmology.  What is that all about?  Is it good or is it whack? Tom Wheeler will attempt to answer that very question with his talk titled: “What is Data Science?”.  Tom works at Cloudera, a company that ought to know a lot about data science.  Please come to listen to Tom and find out.

Additionally, there will be a group discussion with the theme of: Pivotal moments in your programming lives.  Lambda Loungers will have a chance to share turning points in their careers and the important concepts of design, computing, theory, architecture, testing, etc. that were particularly impactful and how it changed their thinking.

Doors open at 6 p.m.  Pizza is sponsored by Cloudera.

The meetings are held at:

680 Craig Road, 1st floor meeting room
Creve Coeur, MO 63141

There’s a map to the building here.

The February meeting (Thursday, 2/7/13) is the 50th Lambda Lounge, and has two talks that shouldn’t be missed.  First up, Jessica Kerr will be giving a talk called “Decompiling Your Brain”, in which she literally decompiles a human brain in front of a live audience (still looking for volunteers).  The second talk will be from Tim Skinner on Haskell’s Foreign Function Interface.  If you ever find yourself needing to reach out from Haskell’s warm, protective embrace into the world where the compiler’s type-safety checks aren’t looking out for you, you won’t want to miss this talk.

Doors open at 6 p.m.  Pizza is sponsored by Object Computing, Inc.

The meetings are held at:

680 Craig Road, 1st floor meeting room
Creve Coeur, MO 63141

There’s a map to the building here.

This Thursday is Nov. 1st, Day of the Dead, and also time for the next Lambda Lounge meeting.

The first talk will be Alex Miller talking about Rich Hickey’s new Codeq project, which pulls Git repos into Datomic, and extends resolution down to the code level unit (a “codeq”), to allow you to query within and across code repos in terms of your actual programs.

The second talk will be Bill Burdick who talked several months ago about programming with lambda calculus. Bill is returning to talk about continuing progress on his (lazy, functional, untyped) Leisure language and environment, which he previewed last time.

This month’s pizza sponsor is Softtek Integration Systems.

We’ve got two great talks set up for the October meeting this week.

Jim Duey is going to be talking about his work parallelizing core.logic (the system David Nolen built from Byrd/Friedman’s miniKanren). If you’re interested in learning about how core.logic was built, check out this video from David’s overview at Strange Loop:

Also, Richard Feldman is going to be talking about a language called Mithril that he’s been working on, a so-called “Greatest Hits of Dynamic Programming” language.