Intro Focus + context visualizations are quite useful when we want to zoom into some part of a visualization, but are unwilling to give up the “bird’s eye” view of the entire picture. In this case, we distort the part of the visual on which we want to focus, while preserving the entire view. In […]

I was recently given the opportunity to review the book F# for Quantitative Finance by Johan Astborg.  Disclaimer: I work in the finance industry, but I don’t do “Quant stuff” for a living. I’m not going to review the correctness of the … Continue reading →

Someone asked me what the secret type provider I am working on is.  I neglected to tell them, and instead joked that it would be the Don Syme type provider.  Later I reflected that the idea had actually been a stroke of genius, so just knocked this together in 20 of your English minutes – the Don Syme fact provider!  It will produce an endless stream of true facts about the mystery man known as the Father of F#.  Get it from my github here.  

Cloud Security, For Real This Time: Homomorphic Encryption and the Future of Data Privacy. That’s the title of my presentation at the next Central Ohio OWASP Quarterly Seminar, on 27 February at 1:00 p.m. Dan King, from Microsoft, will be talking about single sign-on for federated Dynamics CRM, very practical stuff which is in real [...]

My favorite column in MSDN Magazine is Test Run; it was originally focused on testing, but the author, James McCaffrey, has been focusing lately on topics revolving around numeric optimization and machine learning, presenting a variety of methods and approaches. I quite enjoy his work, with one minor gripe –his examples are all coded in C#, which in my opinion is really too bad, because the algorithms would gain much clarity if written in F# instead. Back in June 2013, he published a piece on Amoeba Metho[...]