I have done some research on function minimization algorithms implemented on .NET. Short summary can be found below. Gradient descent Gradient descent is one of the simplest function optimization algorithms. You can implement it by yourself or using one o[...]

Welcome to F# Weekly, A roundup of F# content from this past week: News New video! “An Informal Deep Dive With Don Syme: The Freebase Type Provider“. New F# book coming soon! “F# Deep Dives” by Tomas Petricek, Phillip Trelford and Co. Vote to make F# firs[...]

There is an increasing number of commercial F# uses. If you want to learn about the domains where F# is used (including finance, game development, machine learning and other) as well as about common programming techniques in F#, then the upcoming F# Deep [...]

It’s that time of the year again and here in the world of Here Be Monsters things are getting interesting too. From 17th December to new years day, as you come into the game every day you’ll get a +15 luck (which significantly boosts your chance of catchi[...]

Welcome to F# Weekly, A roundup of F# content from this past week: News Infer.NET 2.5 turns the simple succinct syntax of F# into a probabilistic modeling language for Bayesian machine learning. (video presentation) Tomas Petricek presented “F# Data: Libr[...]

Web development is so different today than what it was even a few years ago. Web 1.0 (if we can call it that) is fading fast. Web 2.0 is in full swing. HTML 5 + CSS 3 and JavaScript are … Continue reading →

Web development is so different today than what it was even a few years ago. Web 1.0 (if we can call it that) is fading fast. Web 2.0 is in full swing. HTML 5 + CSS 3 and JavaScript are … Continue reading →

This is a lesson I should have learned. It comes back to bite me and my coworkers ever so often. Running a script to update data without test is always quick and dirty. SSIS is a wonderful tool, but there are fundamental flaws to this tool as it’s really [...]