Scalar Conf 2016 This small conference had its third installment in (http://www.polin.pl/en)[Polin - Museum of the History of Polish Jews]. Organizing Scala conference isn’t that obvious and having that kind of attention is really great - all the foreign speakers, etc. Here is a quick recap of presentations I’ve attended. ...
Lambda Days 2016 - Kraków This last two days I’ve spend on a conference in Kraków. The topics revolved around functional programming, with all the experimental stuff, popular languages, etc. Here are the talks I’ve been to and short summaries of those: Day 1: Propositions as types - the keynote delivered by Philip Wadler - seen it already on YouTube. But the thing with Lambda t-shirt looked funny again :D Using “Program shaping” and algorithmic skeletons to parallelise an evolutionary multi-agent system in Erlang - pretty long title, huh :) The presentation, thou very academic was also quite interesting. The whole concept not being particularly new, but the set of tools used for refactorings into parallel code seemed interesting. ...