Using StageXL and Dart, I built another mini-game themed around our MMORPG Here Be Monsters this week. The game follows a pack of Taotie monsters, which is a type of spirit monster created when a ghost with immense hunger possesses a Chinese pot. Taotie o[...]

Earlier this week, the Release Candidate build of Visual Studio 2013 was announced.  Like the Preview build before it, the RC contains a host of new features for F# developers, including F# 3.1 language updates and improved Visual F# tooling.  You can rea[...]

The machine learning theme continues to be popular at the F#unctional Londoners meetup group. Last night Matt Moloney gave a great hands on session on k-means clustering. Matt has worked on large machine learning systems at e-Bay. More recently he has bee[...]

Looks like materialized views are coming to postgres :).

Whats good about spreadsheets? Spreadsheet applications offers a lot of usability. The concept of using a grid of variables that are easy to reference is a surprisingly powerful  concept. Many applications can be prototyped in spread sheet applications.[...]

As I want to try some LP (looking into a coursera-course) I tried to setup GLPK on Windows. (BTW: doing this in Linux is trivial: apt-get or you friendly packet-manager). The goal was to get this simple skript: running. Well … Weiterlesen →

Tokenization of raw text is a standard pre-processing step for many NLP tasks. For English, tokenization usually involves punctuation splitting and separation of some affixes like possessives. Other languages require more extensive token pre-processing, w[...]

Over the last week or so, I’ve been looking at and playing around with the Streams API in Dart, which has been (in part at least) based on the Rx API, and it’s easy to see the parallels between the two sets of APIs and you can find most of the core Rx API[...]

Welcome to F# Weekly, A roundup of F# content from this past week: News New feature was proposed to F# - Implement interface by expression (example is here) New F# Cheatsheet in PDF and HTML format using FSharp.Formatting tool was published. James announc[...]

From the window at the office I’ve seen a series of futuristic buildings erected, first the Gherkin, then the Shard and now the Walkie Talkie:   The last one being recently been re-dubbed the Walkie Scorchie as it produces a supercharged solar ‘death ra[...]