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My startup, tasq.ai, was founded to solve this exact problem, as we have a live, successful product with all of the features you describe and more. We're happy to have a conversati…

A similar concept was used in Jack of Shadows by Roger Zelazny, but with fantasy elements. https://www.amazon.com/Shadows-Rediscovered-Classics-Roger-Z...

Thank you, Eliezer. It's been a great run and the last few weeks have been indeed special

Hi, Quick comment on item 2.3: SHOULD NOT update a var using loops or conditions. you conclude that this expression is the best option: val sum = elements.map(_.value).sum This exp…

Fun fact about the UK. In order to get a license to drive a taxi in London, applicants need to pass an extensive test. Passing the test takes years of preparation and multiple atte…

According to site you're citing, the nomination was actually an attempt at satire by a Swedish MP: "Apparently though, Brandt never intended the nomination to be taken seriously. B…

For the interested, some links to Bayes' theorem: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayes'_theorem http://yudkowsky.net/rational/bayes Useful if you want to know (or need a good way to …

Akka adds something similar in Scala land (and Java) called Dataflow concurrency. http://doc.akka.io/docs/akka/snapshot/scala/dataflow.html

You should take a look at scala's OpenHashMap - a mutable hashmap in the scala standard library that is often as fast as ju.HashMap. Link to scala doc: http://www.scala-lang.org/ap…

Meta comment - as somebody who recently introduced Scala into an organization as our preferred language for new development (co-existing with a Java code base), I'm really happy to…

OP here: The current news is that they have actually started building a production center. I don't know anything about this field, but the potential is exciting. The link (in Hebre…

+1 for the 'functional programming in Scala' mention. Really awesome and fun class to take. Lecture are available here: https://class.coursera.org/progfun-2012-001/class/index

'actually have them interacting positively with people in the United States' Most (all?) Iranian players would probably be playing on European servers. This is in part due to the h…

Sounds great.