Managing side effects is one of Haskell's biggest selling points

I'd recommend LessWrong [1], It's an active community around discussing rationality, AI, self improvement, and many more intellectually stimulating topics.

[1] http://lesswrong.com/

I think a little bit of bragging is good, it can create a bit of social pressure for others to act. More people should publicly share what they've done

So, your awesome, if I was a US citizen I would be calling right now.

Leonard Susskind talked about this idea and expanded on it in his talk 'Why is time a one way street'

Highly recommend the talk.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhnKBKZvb_U

That was very interesting, thanks for sharing.

I can see the elegance of using fractal math to explain the big bang, cosmological expansion and the apparent structure our universe exhibits (as opposed to being an inert soup).

I didn't make that inference, I figured Larry was avoiding the question.

NLP is hard

I actually made the inference, but then rejected the hypothesis. It seemed unrealistic to me that Curly would own a Red Lamborghini.

An AI could form _a number of_ inferences and then use a knowledge base to choose a likely candidate. In fact: I feel like IBM's Watson gave us a little preview of what an AI's "thought process" might be like.

I figured there was some kind of temporal timey whimey thing going on because the three stooges pre-date red Lamborghinis.

I bet it'd make more sense with vocal inflection included ;)

Not incredibly popular but Nikki and the Robots is a game written in haskell that has recently been greenlit on steam

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=107105...

Because the ads are usually relevant and useful. in your example, the second card is a nice summary of hotels with all the relevant info right there

Relevant and useful is a nice buzzword. People will also want unbiased and cheapest.

Well that may be true, but unbiased information is just not available in commercial settings (even the government "which solar panel is best" information is politically influenced, plus it doesn't even list correct pricing). I usually book hotels on kayak, but what hotels are listed there ?

The ones that pay 5% of the booking price to kayak.

Face it, without commercial incentives you'd never get accurate pricing, making finding the cheapest hotel VERY hard. Finding a 5% cheaper hotel costs me the better part of the day, and that will generally be worth far more than the 5% of the price that I might save (ie. 15-20 bucks). Also, sites like kayak may not get volume pricing, but they do seem to get lower prices than I can get myself.

What's stopping you from setting an outrageous price?

You're not free to set your own price, there are guidelines set forth in the law (ArbnErfG, § 11 Vergütungsrichtlinien) - which also means that the employer cannot undercut those guidelines and force you to hand your invention over for free. If there's a disagreement about the price, there's a mediation set forth in the law, so the first thing would not be a court case.

In general, german courts are quite employee friendly, so seriously, your employer would probably be at least as afraid to go to court as you'd be. Maybe not if it's a litigation-happy megacorp, but the bulk of german companies is medium-sized (Mittelstand) and they tend to shy away from court cases.

possibly logos/advertisements.

it's got motorola assist, which is pretty cool

Does it do anything useful? It wants access to my contact list for some reason which makes me uneasy.

It uses your address list to figure out if someone is allowed to wake you at night with a phone call: You set a time when you like to sleep, and if someone is 'stared' in your address list, it will ring. Otherwise their call will go to voice mail. There's a handy setting that will allow people who call twice in five minutes to ring you in your sleep.