Earlier I posted about F# Deep Dives and its Early Access Program for reading chapters of the book as they become available. I'm particularly struck by the contents of Chapter 4 - Numerical computing in the financial domain by Chao-Jen Chen. This looks like a stunning guide to financial programming with F#. Here are the contents of the chapter (or, perhaps it will turn out to be multiple chapters!). An early draft of the chapter is already available under the Early Access Program. If you're into financial [...]

I'd like to draw your attention to the Early Access Program for F# Deep Dives, which looks like it will be a wonderful book! F# Deep Dives presents a collection of real-world F# techniques, each written by expert practitioners. Each chapter presents a new use case where you'll read how the author used F# to solve a complex problem more effectively than would have been possible using a traditional approach. You'll not only see how a specific solution works in a specific domain, you'll also learn how F# dev[...]

It looks like this summer will be my strangest vacation in a while – I’ll be taking a F# road trip of sorts in August, talking about F# at user groups all over the United States. How this crazy plan took shape exactly I am not quite sure in retrospect, but I am really looking forward to meeting all the local communities – this will be fun! As of July 13th, here is the plan: July 31, Sacramento: “Coding Dojo: a gentle introduction to Machine Learning with F#” August 8, Houston: “An Introduction to F# for th[...]

QCon NYC was the most refreshing conference I’ve been to in a very long time. Perhaps it’s partially because I’ve lingered too long in Microsoft circles, or maybe it’s just been too long since I went to a large conference. In any case, the speaker lineup was just chock full of brilliant minds from all [...]

  Microsoft Research in Redmond has several RSDE (Research Software Development Engineer) positions available in Machine Learning + Data Tools. They are looking for people with C# and F# skills - both are used. Prior Machine Learning experience is not necessary. Research Software Development Engineer, Senior - Microsoft Research Job Research Software Development Engineer II - Microsoft Research Job Details of the first below Apply now » Start apply with LinkedIn Start apply with Facebook [...]