This is my modest contribution to the F# Advent Calendar 2015 . Thanks to @sergey_tihon for organizing it! Check out the epic stuff others have produced so far on his website or under the #fsAdv...
http://www.clear-lines.com/blog/post/hacking-together-wbfacts-a-World-Bank-Twitter-Bot.aspx
A couple of days ago, I stumbled across the Wonderland Clojure Katas , by @gigasquid . It's a wonderful project, with 7 independent coding exercises, inspired by Lewis Carrol's "Alice in Wonderla...
http://www.clear-lines.com/blog/post/wonderland-katas-fsharp-style.aspx
A couple of weeks ago, I came across this blog post by Steve Shogren , which looks at various programming languages, and attempts to define a “language safety score”, by taking into account ...
http://www.clear-lines.com/blog/post/languate-safety-score-revisited.aspx
As much as we people who write code like to talk about code, the biggest challenge in a software project is not code. A project rarely fails because of technology – it usually fails because of ...
http://www.clear-lines.com/blog/post/fsharp-as-a-Ubiquitous-Language.aspx
I got curious the other day about how to measure the F# community growth, and thought it could be interesting to take a look at this through StackOverflow. As it turns out, it’s not too hard to...
http://www.clear-lines.com/blog/post/Taking-a-peek-at-fsharp-on-StackOverflow.aspx
About a month ago, I vaguely recall a discussion on Twitter – if memory serves me, @rickasaurus was involved – around sharing articles. This inspired me to try something. Every morning, I st...
http://www.clear-lines.com/blog/post/Catch-of-the-month-April-2015.aspx
In our previous post, we looked at James McCaffrey’s code, “Gradient Descent Training Using C# ” from MSDN magazine, and took a stab at rewriting the first part in F# , to clarify a bit the...
http://www.clear-lines.com/blog/post/Rewriting-a-logistic-regression-from-C-to-F-(part-2).aspx
I will admit it, I got a bit upset by James McCaffrey’s column in MSDN magazine this month, “Gradient Descent Training Using C# ”. While the algorithm explanations are quite good, I was dis...
http://www.clear-lines.com/blog/post/Rewriting-a-logistic-regression-from-C-to-F-(part-1).aspx
A few weeks ago, I came across DiffSharp, an automatic differentiation library in F# . As someone whose calculus skills have always been rather mediocre (thanks Wolfram Alpha!), but who needs to ...
I had the great pleasure to speak at CodeMash this week, and, on my way back, ended up spending a couple of hours at the Atlanta airport waiting for my connecting flight back to the warmer clima...
Well, we are in the last hours of 2014, and I am nearly recovered from the craziness that was the F# Europa Tour 2014 , so here we go – the Tour, in cold, hard facts (after all, I am a numbers�...
http://www.clear-lines.com/blog/post/The-2014-F-Tour-in-numbers.aspx
This post is December 20th' part of the English F# Advent #fsAdvent series; make sure to also check out the Japanese series , which also packs the awesome! As I was going around Paris the ot...
From time to time, I get absorbed by questions for no clear reason. This is one of these times – you have been warned. So here is the question: can I use a logistic map to encode an arbitrary...
http://www.clear-lines.com/blog/post/Some-completely-useless-fun-with-the-logistic-map.aspx
Well, last year’s F# tour was so much fun, I figured I would try to do it again, in Europe this time. I am becoming quite fond of F# tourism: after all, what better way to discover a place tha...
http://www.clear-lines.com/blog/post/fsharp-europe-tour-2014.aspx
If you have ever come across my blog before, it will probably come as no surprise if I tell you that I enjoy coding with F# tremendously. However, there is another reason why I enjoy F#, and that...
http://www.clear-lines.com/blog/post/F-Coding-Breakfasts-Lunches-lete28099s-code-together!.aspx