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coolsunglasses on July 10, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Learn Lisp the Hard Way

MIRI (one of the more well known groups of people serious about the singularity) actually recommend people learn Haskell if they want to contribute to mathematical, statistical, AI research.

http://intelligence.org/courses/

https://github.com/bitemyapp/learnhaskell

jonnybgood on July 12, 2014 [–]

You should also learn Scheme, too.

From your link:

> The first self-modifying AIs will hopefully be written in functional programming languages, so learn something useful like Haskell or Scheme.

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