There is a function I need. I know how to write it, but I don’t know if it has a standard name (like map, fold, etc.). It takes one argument — a list of something — and returns a list of 2-tuples of equal length. Each tuple contains one item from the list[...]

Last week saw the fourth instalment of the annual Progressive F# Tutorials hosted at Skills Matter in London, with 8 sessions over 2 days and 2 tracks, to a full house. 2014 has been another exciting year in the F# community, with F# specific talks featu[...]

Welcome to F# Weekly, A roundup of F# content from this past week: News Legally establishing the F# Software Foundation – FSSF needs your help. F# Advent Calendar 2014. FsReveal has just moved to fsprojects on GitHub. Elucidate – an alternative reading mo[...]

How computationally expensive are various fundamental floating point mathematical operations?  Here's a quick and dirty benchmark, which, although surely quite naive, seems to capture the rough relative cost of a few operations. Motivation This quarter I [...]

How computationally expensive are various fundamental floating point mathematical operations?  Here’s a quick and dirty benchmark, which, although surely quite naive, seems to capture the rough relative cost of a few operations. Motivation This quarte[...]

When is a string not a string? As part of my “work” on the ECMA-334 TC49-TG2 technical group, standardizing C# 5 (which will probably be completed long after C# 6 is out… but it’s a start!) I’ve had the pleasure of being exposed to some of the interesting[...]

One of the perverse side effects of code that’s “the simplest thing that could possibly work” is that it can appear much easier to create than it actually was.  I refer to this as Athena Code because it can appear as if the code sprung full-grown and read[...]

This post has a few purposes – it’s partly a bit of advertising, but it’s also meant to serve as a quick way of replying to speaking requests for a while… if you’ve been directed here by an email from me, I hope you’ll excuse the “form letter” approach. ([...]

A few days pack I posted the prisoners puzzle and I think it’s time to give the solution. solution Obviously the prisioners can only use the both switches to communicate with one another after the planning phase so we have … Weiterlesen →

First of all the title, redux because I’m revising post I started on earlier in the year, compression because this has to do with compression, and Flux, which is also part of the redux, one of the first things I remember writing on the net was an art[...]