Recursion schemes from the ground up
Details
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Our Talk: Recursion schemes from the ground up by Nicolas Rinaudo
Recursion schemes are a topic that often come up in conversations with
experienced, knowledgeable developers. For the longest time, I'd just
nod and smile and pretend I knew what was going on.
The purpose of this talk is to help people in the same situation.
Recursion schemes are far less scary and confusing than the mystique
that surrounds them suggests, and this talk attempts to prove it.
We'll start from first principles and refactor our way to proper
recursion schemes, discovering and explaining all the necessary
concepts as we go along.
By the end of the talk, attendants should have all the tools they need
to understand recursion schemes, and be able to explore the more
esoteric ones on their own.
Our speaker:
Nicolas Rinaudo is the CTO of Besedo, where we use Scala to moderate large volumes of user generated content and do weird things to machine
learning models.
After too many years as a Java programmer and a thankfully brief stint
in marketing, Nicolas discovered Functional Programming through Scala
and fell in love. Since then, he's made it his mission to learn and
explain the scary bits, by focusing on practical applications.
Nicolas is also the author and sole maintainer of a few useful OSS
libraries, such as kantan.csv.
Agenda
5.30pm Welcome to SFScala by Alexy Khrabrov & Salar Rahmanian
5.45pm Recursion schemes from the ground up by Nicolas Rinaudo
7.00pm Wrap up and continue conversations on Discord