Taking the Coursera Probabilistic Graphical Models course has had me thinking a lot about complexity. Lately, program state complexity in the context of testing in particular. How many discrete tests would it take to ensure every combination of inputs is correct? Let’s do some back of the napkin math and see what we come up [...]

It was the best of times, it was the… Actually, it was all just fantastic. On the beginner track Chris Marinos, Phil Trelford, and Tomas Petricek worked tirelessly in teaching F#. I was thoroughly impressed with the quality of their tutorials and would recommend seeking any of them out if you wish to become more [...]

It wasn’t long after college that I found myself blogging about the technology I was using on a regular basis. I have pretty good writing skills and am damn good with the code so soon after I was easily breaking 10K hits per post. Having a platform to share my ideas and knowledge was exhilarating [...]

Upcoming Speaking Engagements: I’m very excited to be giving the Keynote at the first Great Lakes Functional Programming Conference, I’d suggest signing up but it’s already sold out! I’ve spent a ton of time over the last few months helping put together the first ever F# conference in the USA. Many of the most well [...]

Thank you all for your comments on my previous post, I appreciate the time you all took in sharing your perspectives very much.  Many of you have brought up great analogies to demonstrate how you feel and in reading these responses I realized I must not have been very clear. There are some musical geniuses [...]