http://www.randomhacks.net/articles/2007/02/10/pfp-is-cool en-us 40 Technology and Other Fun Stuff <p>Syntaxfree is <a href="http://syntaxfree.wordpress.com/2007/02/09/some-probabilistic-text-generation/">hacking</a> on Martin Erwig&#8217;s <a href="http://web.engr.oregonstate.edu/~erwig/pfp/">probability monad</a>. This is one of the coolest monads out there&#8212;it allows you to trivially solve all kinds of probability problems.</p> <p>Mikael Johansson has a <a href="http://blog.mikael.johanssons.org/archive/2007/02/response-to-heath-raftery/">good example</a>.</p> <p>I hope to write a bit more about probability monads soon. There&#8217;s already a long post sitting on my hard drive, and some more ideas that I&#8217;m still trying to puzzle out.</p> <p>In the meantime, I&#8217;d like to recommend <a href="http://homepages.cwi.nl/~jve/HR/">The Haskell Road to Logic, Maths and Programming</a>. There&#8217;s an <a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/cs.PL/0512096">excellent review</a> available. </p> Sat, 10 Feb 2007 16:14:00 +0000 urn:uuid:b66c19ba-06b7-4b30-8755-51ebf45214c6 Eric Kidd http://www.randomhacks.net/articles/2007/02/10/pfp-is-cool Haskell Math Monads Probability http://www.randomhacks.net/articles/trackback/292