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Scala Days 2014 wrapped up last week.

At the beginning of this year I started rewriting our Scala training material.

One of the most important decisions when designing an A/B test is choosing the goal of the test.

Type class based serialization is now standard in Scala JSON libaries such as Play JSON.

How will machine learning change how we interact with computers?

Monad transformers allow us to stack monads.

At Velocity I gave a talk on conflict-free replicated datatypes, or CRDTs for short.

Last night I was lucky enough to speak at the London Machine Learning Meetup.

In a previous post I argued for the usefulness of bandit algorithms to marketers and data scientists.

If you're a data scientist or online marketer, I want to convince you that you need to know about bandit algorithms, and you should sign up below for my course.

As programmers we often talk about the expressivity of a language, which is usually taken to be something like how concisely a large class of programs can be written.

If you're a Javascript developer you've probably viewed the Wat talk.

We recently rewrote Myna's back-end service.

I didn't get the response I wanted to run the course.

This post is the first in a series about attaining or maintaining a good level of fitness without using a lot of time and money.

I believe LinkedIn's business model is ready for disruption.

On Monday I delivered a talk on streaming algorithms at Scala eXchange 2012.

We're back after a brief outage.

If you are interested in the slides from my talk at Strata London, here they are.

Following my LSUG talk on streaming algorithms you can now download my slides and view the video.

This thoughtful investigation into the performance of Node.js versus the JVM (represented by Clojure), and the followup comment from Node.js creator Ryan Dahl crystallized some thoughts regarding the Node.js hype-train and its intersection with reality.

Most appreciate the value of what's come to be known as "Big Data" but it's rather harder to appreciate the tools, and particularly Hadoop, that are associated with the movement.

The Commercial Users of Functional Programming conference is being held this year in Copenhagen, from September 13th to 15th.

I spent last week in the lovely city of Edinburgh attending COLT and ICML.

I set up this site some time ago, but never got around to publishing it.

It's 7am.

If you've read this blog so far, you're probably thinking "where's the maths?"

I've had a two blogs in the past, and, as a quick glance will show, have maintained neither.