Brain Dump

This looks interesting.. Come back to this in a bit:

http://biglearn.org/2013/files/papers/biglearning2013_submission_23.pdf

Monads/Scala

Great tutorial on Scala

http://www.codecommit.com/blog/scala/scala-for-java-refugees-part-1

http://cdsmith.wordpress.com/2012/04/18/why-do-monads-matter/

http://james-iry.blogspot.com/2007/09/monads-are-elephants-part-1.html

http://download.java.net/jdk8/docs/api/java/util/Optional.html

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13454347/monads-with-java-8