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Eric Kidd runs Kidd Software, which develops software for a variety of clients using Rails, JavaScript and the EC2 APIs.

He's into compilers, robotics, and programming language design. Right now, he's having fun with Node.js, Scala and Rails 3.1.

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Recommended Reading

• Bayes' rule in Haskell, or why drug tests don't work
• Map fusion: Making Haskell 225% faster
• Why Ruby is an acceptable LISP
• McCarthy's Ambiguous Operator
• The Missing Future
• Lightweight Languages 2 Conference
• Bayesian Whitelisting: Finding the Good Mail Among the Spam

Recent Comments

• Gregg Kellogg on Screencast: Use Rails and RDF.rb to parse Best Buy product reviews
• Frank Atanassow on Derivatives of algebraic data structures: An excellent tutorial
• Eric on Derivatives of algebraic data structures: An excellent tutorial
• Steve Massey on Derivatives of algebraic data structures: An excellent tutorial
• Aleksey Khudyakov on Derivatives of algebraic data structures: An excellent tutorial
• Frank Atanassow on Derivatives of algebraic data structures: An excellent tutorial
• Eric on What do these fixed points have in common?
• Derek Elkins on What do these fixed points have in common?
• Eric on AWS outage timeline & downtimes by recovery strategy
• linkchecker on AWS outage timeline & downtimes by recovery strategy

Programming Links

• λ the Ultimate
• Planet Haskell
• Planet Lisp
• Planet Erlang
• Planet Ruby
• dons
• sigfpe
• Nonlinear
• Eigenclass
• Riding Rails
• Loud Thinking
• Raganwald
• Paul Graham
• programming reddit
• silk and spinach

Math Links

• Good Math, Bad Math
• Carnival of Mathematics
• Michi’s blog

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