Subject
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Haskell
Bookmarks
Functors, Applicatives, and Monads in Pictures
Aditya Bhargava's illustrated guide to functors, applicatives, and monads using colorful box-and-function diagrams. The best visual introduction to these Haskell/category theory concepts for programmers coming from imperative languages.
Bayes' Rule in Haskell, or Why Drug Tests Don't Work
Classic probabilistic reasoning example using drug tests to illustrate Bayes' rule: even a highly accurate test produces mostly false positives when the base rate of drug use is low. Implemented in Haskell to make conditional probability feel like simple if-statements.
Natural Language Processing for the Working Programmer
Natural Language Processing for the Working Programmer — a free online book teaching NLP concepts using Haskell. Unusual choice of language for NLP education; valuable for functional programming practitioners interested in text processing.