We first heard of the Australian government gettings fallout from the US because of voiced concerns about using offshore cloud providers. Some technologists I have talked with thought it obvious that the US government would use available means to get accu[...]

Problem The primes 3, 7, 109, and 673, are quite remarkable. By taking any two primes and concatenating them in any order the result will always be prime. For example, taking 7 and 109, both 7109 and 1097 are prime. The sum of these four primes, 792, repr[...]

Besides having one of the coolest names around, Random Forest is an interesting machine learning algorithm, for a few reasons. It is applicable to a large range of classification problems, isn’t prone to over-fitting, can produce good quality metrics as a[...]

There is a tool for that:https://github.com/adoxa/ansicon

We recently found out about an interesting, undocumented behaviour of Amazon’s Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) service – that health check pings are performed by each and every instance running your ELB service at every health check interval. Intro to ELB Bu[...]

Close your eyes and imagine your program as a function that takes a set of inputs and produces a set of outputs. I know this may seem overly simple, but a set of actions in a GUI can be thought of as a set of inputs, and a set of resulting side effects to[...]

Introduction This article will introduce Last-Fi – an F# powered internet radio player that uses a Raspberry Pi and Last.Fm services.  The motivation behind this work was to both build something fun and useful for the Raspberry Pi that interfaces with var[...]

I just completed the Coursera Machine Learning class this week, and enjoyed the experience very much. Let’s get the obvious out of the way: getting a high-quality class, for free, wherever you are, at your own pace, is pretty amazing, and I can put up wit[...]

My friend Antonio Cisternino recently pointed me to FSCL - a compiler from F# to OpenCL. Here is the abstract from the documentation for the compiler: https://t.co/vHQPzsxE0O. The project currently seems to live here: https://github.com/GabrieleCocco/ Now[...]

Welcome to F# Weekly, It was an adorable week! There are lots of great things happened: News Pre-release of F# 3.1 was announced. “F# folk, please upvote this on reddit and retweet” (Don Syme) From now, Visual F# tooling can be updated more frequently, an[...]