Creative uses of monads

Question

I\'m looking for creative uses of monads to learn from. I\'ve read somewhere that monads have been used for example in AI, but being a monad newbie, I fail to see how.

Answer 1

Read series of articles on monads used to model probability and probabilistic processes here : http://www.randomhacks.net/articles/2007/03/03/smart-classification-with-haskell (follow links to prev/next parts)