A fascinating slide deck of financial programming wizardry by Daniel Egloff of Quantlea at the NVIDIA Global Technology Conference, 2012, showing the real-world power of F# as a tool when applied in the GPGPU programming space: Title:  New Generation GPU Accelerated Financial Quant Libraries New generation GPU accelerated solutions for derivative pricing, hedging, and risk management can be build more efficiently with modern technology and functional programming languages like F# on .NET or Scala on the Ja[...]

This is a list of my takeaways from the excellent talk between Erik Meijer (of the LINQ and Rx fame), Carl Hewitt (creator of the Actor model) and Clemens Szyperski, on the Actor model.   Disclaimer : this conversation revolves around the conceptual model of an actor, as opposed to specific implementations of the Actor [...]

This is so good I keep going back to it, so to save myself and you the hassle of searching for it every time I thought I’d share it here on my blog, enjoy! Ten^H^H^H Many Cloud App Design Patterns from Shlomo Swidler

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