Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell (GHC 7) on ARM

2012-06-10 Thread Ben Gamari
Joshua Poehls jos...@poehls.me writes: Hello Ben, Hello, Sorry for the latency. I'm currently on vacation in Germany so I haven't had terribly consistent Internet access. I've Cc'd haskell-cafe@ as I've been meaning to document my experiences anyways and your email seems like a good excuse

[Haskell-cafe] How to select n random words from a file ...

2012-06-10 Thread Noon Silk
Hi, I'm clearly new to haskell, and I suppose those is a basic question, but after a bit of searching I've been unable to figure out the best way to do this. I was first trying to find out how to, say, get a random element from a list, but I'm starting to think that may not be the best way

Re: [Haskell-cafe] converting functional dependencies to type families

2012-06-10 Thread Henning Thielemann
On Thu, 7 Jun 2012, Simon Peyton-Jones wrote: Very useful! Maybe worth turning into a page on the Haskell wiki? I created one: http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Functional_dependencies_vs._type_families ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list

Re: [Haskell-cafe] How to select n random words from a file ...

2012-06-10 Thread Eugene Kirpichov
Hi, Look up reservoir sampling, it will most probably help. On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 6:21 AM, Noon Silk noonsli...@gmail.com wrote: Hi,  I'm clearly new to haskell, and I suppose those is a basic question, but after a bit of searching I've been unable to figure out the best way to do this. I

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Two parallel libraries from Japan

2012-06-10 Thread Takayuki Muranushi
Hello everyone, I, Takayuki, author of Paraiso, would like to make some follow ups. First, the published version of the first paper on Paraiso is now available from http://iopscience.iop.org/1749-4699/5/1/015003 . Please go ahead and read it because the typeset is better, the journal is an

[Haskell-cafe] ANN: scrobble-0.1.0.1: Scrobbling server

2012-06-10 Thread Christopher Done
Heyo, If you use Last.fm/Libre.fm you might be interested in running your own local scrobbling server in Haskell. $ cabal update $ cabal install scrobble $ scrobble-server 8910 Source is here with further instructions for audio players and such: https://github.com/chrisdone/scrobble Exactly

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Two parallel libraries from Japan

2012-06-10 Thread Carter Schonwald
Thanks these look very interesting! It seems that the parallelism is only available vai the JoinList module, am i correct in thinking this (or at least that is the only place where it is clearly inidicated in the haddock and source code). Are there any plans to leverage Cloud Haskell once the

[Haskell-cafe] Haskell User Group Hamburg (Germany) - Meeting Thursday June 14th 2012

2012-06-10 Thread Stefan Schmidt
Hello cafe, there's an upcomming meeting of the Haskell user group Hamburg next Thursday (June 14th). We'll start 19:00 at the Xing AG in Hamburg (Gänsemarkt 43, 20354 Hamburg). Falko Peters will give a short talk about hedis ( http://hackage.haskell.org/package/hedis), a Redis client written

Re: [Haskell-cafe] How to select n random words from a file ...

2012-06-10 Thread Alexander Solla
On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 6:21 AM, Noon Silk noonsli...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I'm clearly new to haskell, and I suppose those is a basic question, but after a bit of searching I've been unable to figure out the best way to do this. I was first trying to find out how to, say, get a random

Re: [Haskell-cafe] attoparsec double precision, quickCheck and aeson

2012-06-10 Thread Bryan O'Sullivan
On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 6:20 AM, Doug McIlroy d...@cs.dartmouth.eduwrote: Last I looked (admittedly quite a while ago), the state of the art was strtod in http://www.netlib.org/fp/dtoa.c. (Alas, dtoa.c achieves calculational perfection via a murmuration of #ifdefs.) That was indeed the

Re: [Haskell-cafe] How to select n random words from a file ...

2012-06-10 Thread KC
An interesting related problem is if you are only allowed one pass through the data how would you randomly choose one word. -- -- Regards, KC ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org