scala.bythbay.io: Rob Norris Interview

ai.bythebay.io Nov 2025, Oakland, full-stack AI conference Scale By the Bay 2019 is held on November 13-15 in sunny Oakland, California, on the shores of Lake Merritt: https://scale.bythebay.io. Join us! ----- Rob Norris Gemini Observatory Irritant Portland, OR Websitetwitter.com/tpolecat By day Rob writes software for big telescopes, and by night he hacks on open-source FP libraries, mostly in Scala. He is a regular irritant on IRC and Twitter where he goes by the handle tpolecat. Rob lives in Portland with his wife, daughter, and cat, all of whom are very good sports.

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