This was my third Clojure/conj and the first year it's been outside of Raleigh, NC - with the actual event at the George Washington Masonic Memorial, in a beautiful theater, and lodging at the (expensive) Embassy Suites, just a few minutes away. As usual,[...]

I’ve often been asked to answer the questions, “Why F#? Why is it important?” I struggle to answer this question. I don’t really understand it. Part of the problem is that I try to provide an answer. These questions cannot be answered without first unders[...]

Neural networks are very powerful tool and at the same time, it is not easy to use all its power. Now we are one step closer to it from F# and .NET. We will delegate model training to R using R Provider. Also we will use Deedle (that was announced some da[...]

Welcome to F# Weekly, A roundup of F# content from this past week: News Deedle (Data manipulation library for F# and C# inspired by Pandas) was announced! PCL and .NET NuGet Libraries are now enabled for Xamarin! Try Deedle in 10 minutes using F#! Http.fs[...]

Performance of the same LoopFinder F# code over time. 3X better since 2010 and 2x better since 2011. The program was just recompiled to target the latest .Net version, each time.

Performance of the same LoopFinder F# code over time. 3X better since 2010 and 2x better since 2011. The program was just recompiled to target the latest .Net version, each time.

Tonight at ThoughtWorks in San Francisco, 6pm: When designing software, we often need to solve numerous instances of the same problem. When designing user interfaces, we need to describe the layout and interaction. For financial systems, we need to descri[...]

I have been a vocal advocate of F# for a long time. I’ve shared some of my little interesting discoveries in the language from time to time. I’ve been trying to help other .Net developers to see what a great, cool language F# is. I’ve tried to add intelli[...]

Reblogged from BlueMountain Capital Tech Blog: Yesterday we announced Deedle, our new Open Source library for exploratory data analysis in C# and F#.  Deedle (almost) stands for "Dotnet Exploratory Data Library".  This is a library with similar, but not y[...]