The strange thing happens, Rattle is an awesome tool but not so well known for devs as it should be. We definitely need to fix this. Rattle (the R Analytical Tool To Learn Easily) presents statistical and visual summaries of data, transforms data into for[...]

The first annual Lambda Jam (US) conference was held at the extraordinarily beautiful Intercontinental hotel in downtown Chicago, a few blocks from the lake. Lambda Jam was unusual in a couple of ways: First off, it specifically targeted a broad range of[...]

Welcome to F# Weekly, A roundup of F# content from this past week: News F# users who program with Visual Studio will be glad to see this new debugger feature in VS2013. F# side-by-side rendered Markdown comments in Tsunami are coming soon. There is one mo[...]

It looks like this summer will be my strangest vacation in a while – I’ll be taking a F# road trip of sorts in August, talking about F# at user groups all over the United States. How this crazy plan took shape exactly I am not quite sure in retrospect, bu[...]

Join the F# Seattle User Group meetup next Wednesday for a talk about functional-style control flow in F#: Many developers come to F# from the imperative world of C#, where they are accustomed to various loop types, if/else blocks, switches, breaks, a[...]

Off the back of the popular Machine Learning hands on session at Skills Matter last month where we created a digit recognizer, last night we tackled a new dataset. Again we took a task from Kaggle’s online predictive modelling competitions. This time the [...]

QCon NYC was the most refreshing conference I’ve been to in a very long time. Perhaps it’s partially because I’ve lingered too long in Microsoft circles, or maybe it’s just been too long since I went to a large conference. In any case, the speaker lineup [...]

  Microsoft Research in Redmond has several RSDE (Research Software Development Engineer) positions available in Machine Learning + Data Tools. They are looking for people with C# and F# skills - both are used. Prior Machine Learning experience is not nec[...]

Tonight at the F#unctional Londoners meetup:, 6:30pm, SkillsMatter, London: In this regular meetup we'll take on one or more programming challenges in F#. All levels of experience welcome, from beginner to expert. This month we'll go hands on with a Machi[...]