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March 10, 2013

Programming Isn’t Math

Filed under: Algebird,Scala,Scalding,Tweets — Patrick Durusau @ 8:41 pm

Programming Isn’t Math by Oscar Boykin.

From the description:

Functional programming has a rich history of drawing from mathematical theory, yet in this highly entertaining talk from the Northeast Scala Symposium, Twitter data scientist Oscar Boykin make the case that programming is distinct from mathematics. This distinction is healthy and does not mean we can’t leverage many results and concepts from mathematics.

As examples, Oscar will discuss some recent work — algebird, bijection, scalding — and show cases where mathematical purity were both helpful and harmful to developing products at Twitter.

The phrase “…highly entertaining…” may be an understatement.

The type of presentation where you want to starting reading new material during the presentation but you are afraid of missing the next gold nugget!

Definitely one to start the week on!

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