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🎉 Come along to the London Scala Talks! 🎉 In this event you'll hear from Hamish Starling, Paul Stanford and Andi Miller. **Agenda** 6:00pm - 🥤 Doors open. Come along and grab a drink! 6:40pm - 🗣️ Hamish Starling: Specialization? In Scala 3? 7:20pm - 🍕 Intermission: Join us for some free food and drinks! Vegan and vegetarian options are provided. Let us know if you'd like something special - we'd be happy to accommodate. 7:50pm - 🗣️ Paul Stanford: Brute Force, Binomials, and Balatro 8:10pm - 🗣️ Andi Miller: Teaching Hedgehogs to Hibernate: Suspendable Query DAGs at Permutive 8:30pm - 🥤 Socialising: Grab a drink and let's discuss the talks. 9:00pm - 🍻 Join us in a pub to discuss the talks! 🌐 **This event DOES NOT have a live stream** We hope to see you in person. **🗣️ Hamish Starling: Specialization? In Scala 3?** Generic methods and classes used with primitive types suffer from an unfortunate performance loss in Scala compared to languages like Rust or C++, due to erasure. Scala 2 provided a solution through the @specialized annotation, but until now Scala 3 has been without a suitable replacement. This talk explores the specialization problem and introduces inline traits and specialized traits, two brand new experimental features of the Scala language that aim to bring specialization to Scala 3! We'll discuss what they are and how you can use them to make your code faster! ⭐ Hamish Starling (he/him) ⭐ Hamish is a recent graduate from Imperial, who caught the Scala bug while working on the compiler during his study exchange at EPFL. When he's not thinking about FP you can find him reading about his latest obsession, which could be anything from salad gardens to transit systems... **🗣️ Paul Stanford: Brute Force, Binomials, and Balatro** Balatro's Shortcut Joker lets you make a poker straight where gaps of one are allowed (e.g. A,2,4,5,7 would now count as a straight.) Playing with it the other day I felt like I was getting straights all the time, and I became curious

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