I am still working my way through “Machine Learning in Action”, converting the samples from Python to F#. I am currently in the middle of chapter 6, dedicated to Support Vector Machines, which has given me more trouble than the previous ones. This post wi[...]

Welcome to F# Weekly, A roundup of F# content from this past week: Blogs & Tutorials Gaston Hillar posted “Functional Programming in the Financial Industry“ Dave Fancher wrote of “F# Interactive (FSI)“. Daniel Mohl blogged “F#, ASP.NET MVC, and MonoDevelo[...]

Ihr könnte die Demo Projekte für meinen DDC Talk am 26.11. ab sofort auf Github finden. (https://github.com/CarstenKoenig/DDCTalk2013_FunProgInCSharp)

This time we are going to get into a little bit of code and produce the simplest of all 3d solids, the tetrahedron. I know its not the most exciting of things but we have to start somewhere. The scope of 3D graphics in computers is so vast that [...]

The new edition of the Try F# website from Microsoft is rapidly approaching the final stages of engineering! For those who haven't seen it, the new edition of this website is available at   http://preview.tryfsharp.orgThe site is still in beta but progres[...]

My earlier post on how to write a good question is pretty long, and I suspect that even when I refer people to it, often they don't bother reading it. So here's a short list of questions to check after you've written a question (and to think about before [...]

Just a quick note to say that I have made some minor changes to DynamoDb.SQL and released version 1.0.7 of the library to Nuget, here’s a list of the changes: fixed a bug with LIMIT when there is insufficient number of elements using the DynamoDBContext. [...]

NOTE: if you’re unfamiliar with how PostSharp works under the hood, I highly recommend that you check out Dustin Davis’ excellent PostSharp Principles series of blog posts here. The Problem The new async/await keywords in C# are pretty awesome, and makes [...]

I was thinking about how nice you have it in some languages where you can do a case statement for types. Thing is, we have a lot of compiler goodness in C# already. By being explicit about the type and using type inference we can have a generic Case state[...]