Agile software development, the best process the industry has come up with so far, how could it fail? Easy. Any …Continue reading →

Lately, I have been trying to learn more about Data Science and Machine Learning. Following a coursera’s machine learning class and reading some books like, Data Science for Business and Mining the Social Web is very useful. However, you may want to get your hands dirty and learn the topics by solving the real-world problems. … Continue reading →

This is the third post of my notes from Emerging Languages Camp last year. If you haven’t seen it already, you might want to read the Introduction to this series. Noether: Symmetry in Programming Language Design Daira Hopwood Slides · Presentation I found this presentation to be at once fascinating and frustrating. It was the single best talk at [...]

Tomas Petricek posted an article recently about how he used F# to solve a puzzle he had been given for Christmas.  This reminded me of several similar mini-projects I have developed in the past, the most recent being a program to help solve a specific sort of puzzle in the game Puzzle Quest, which I shall now describe. Puzzle Quest is a match-3 game, with various game modes.  One game mode in particular, “Capture”, has a specific layout of tiles which can be matched in a certain way to leave no tiles behin[...]

A lightweight post this week. One of my favorite F# type providers is the World Bank type provider, which enables ridiculously easy access to a boatload of socio-economic data for every country in the world. However, numbers are cold – wouldn’t it be nice to visualize them using a map? Turns out it’s pretty easy to do, using another of my favorites, the R type provider. The rworldmap R package, as its name suggests, is all about world maps, and is a perfect fit with the World Bank data. The video below sh[...]