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+# About
+
+This is a repository of Haskell Jupyter notebooks which will mostly notes on
+Optics and my exploration in Optics through various blog posts and also
+primarily driven by Chris Penner's book Optics by example.
+
+# Installing IHaskell
+
+Sorry, I assume Nix here as it was just easy.
+
+```
+git clone https://github.com/gibiansky/IHaskell.git
+nix-build release.nix --argstr compiler ghc865 --arg packages "haskellPackages: [ haskellPackages.lens ]"
+result/bin/ihaskell-notebook
+```
+
+One can link the binary in local/bin to the above so that it can be run from
+anywhere.
+