Just a quick note to say that my talk “The Combinator Approach to Programming Domain Specific Languages with F#” is now available on Skills Matter site. I’ve put the code on github. If you enjoyed the talk I’ll be giving it again at CodeKen, the conference formally know as Stackoverflow Dev Days, on 14th/15th November. Combinators are a really nice, and under appreciated, way to create DSLs and we go into them in depth on my Beginning F# course at Skills Matter. Book now for the march edition.

Microsoft Research Cambridge is seeking talented software developers to work on the Infer.NET project (http://research.microsoft.com/infernet). Infer.NET is a framework for developing and deploying machine learning and inference solutions. It has been developed within the Machine Learning and Perception group, which has an excellent track record of incorporating leading edge research into bestselling products including the body part recognition technology in Kinect for Xbox 360 and the advertising predicti[...]

This article discusses two numeric types that are available in F# PowerPack - BigRational represents arbitrary precision rational numbers and complex represents (floating-point) complex numbers. The types can be nicely used from F# as well as from C#.

This article is the first article of a series where I'll explain some of the F# features that are useful for numeric computing as well as some functionality from the F# PowerPack library.