Functionally Awesome
I've been pretty swamped with work lately, but I've found time to start doing Project Euler problems, which are pretty fun to solve. I've completed 16 of them today! It's a pretty great way to exercise my mind with new ways of thinking, and it's quite excellent for learning/practicing Haskell. Plus, I gave the bug to my buddy Alex Grant, who is currently catching up to me on Euler problems, in a vague attempt to prove that Ruby is just as valuable a language for this sort of programming problem, as well as having a lot of fun himself. I may have lost him with the release of Portal 2 though... oh well, he'll be back. :-)
I've been on a weird Haskell kick recently, and I gave an intro presentation on the language for BarCamp Rochester 2011, and it was well-received. Other than learning new things and doing considerably more math-for-fun than I'm used to, life has been pretty good. I also have a trivia-solving piece of software in the works, and I'm pleased with the performance it has so far. Hopefully I'll finish and unveil it by this year's Innovation and Creativity Festival at the Rochester Institute of Technology!
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