After an 11-hour marathon session at the London GameCraft event yesterday, I am very proud to say that my team’s entry – Agents of P.R.I.S.M was awarded with the MOST INTERESTING INTERPRETATION OF THE THEME award for the theme of the day – Impact of P.R.I.S.M. It was a great day out for the guys [...]

So back in 2011 I was trying to get an F# user group going here in Detroit.  As is so often the case with user groups, most of the responsibility for setting things up and arranging things was falling on one person–me.  In fairness, the folks at Epitec did their best to help; they provided […]

In most software domains you can safely stick with one or two languages and, because the tools you are using are fairly easy to replicate, you’ll find almost anything you might need to finish your project. This isn’t true in data science and data engineering however. Whether it be some hyper-optimized data structure or a [...]

Last year was our first NYC F# tutorials and they were just amazing (you can read about them here) but this year’s are going to be even better. We’ve got a lineup including some of the most talented teachers in the F# community, and the tickets are extremely inexpensive as conferences and training events go. [...]

  Rick Minerich (@rickasaurus) of Bayard Rock has implemented an F# Type Provider for MATLAB (TM). A GitHub home page for the project is also available. He would like people familiar with F# and/or MATLAB to use the type provider and give him feedback on it! My understanding is that you can use an evaluation copy of MATLAB to do this if you don't have one already. The project is open source on GitHub and actively seeking contributors. The aim is to enable similar interoperability as that achieved by the F#[...]