Reblogged from Steve Bennett blogs: Git is the source code version control system that is rapidly becoming the standard for open source projects. It has a powerful distributed model which allows advanced users to do tricky things with branches, and rewrit[...]

First things first, a big thanks to the team at Skills Matter particularly Wendy and Anaïs for making this event happen. This year the tutorials were held over 2 days in the atmospheric Crypt in Clerkenwell: Expect a return next year in London and [...]

“Friends don’t let friends use null.“ Don Syme Welcome to F# Weekly, A roundup of F# content from this past week: Blogs & Tutorials Tomas Petricek blogged how to “Learn F# at TechMesh and SkillsMetter“ Sergey Tihon released the first publication of  F# We[...]

So what have I been up to lately? Well, lots of different things. I have been taking it easy on the open source and blogging side of things as its been a hectic time of late in my personal life. This seems to be changing now so I’m starting to get[...]

Let's measure how much multimethods are slower that protocols: multimethods are roughly as fast as protocols clojure maps as fast as records "class" notation is in order of magnitude slower than "map" notation

This post is to be filed in the “useless but fun” category. A friend of mine was doing some Hadoopy stuff a few days ago, experimenting with rather large sparse matrices and their products. Long story short, we ended up wondering how sparse the product of[...]

In natural language processing (NLP), one of the first steps is to find the ‘stems’ of words from the ‘paradigm’ forms found in regular text. For example “construction” and “constructing” are paradigms of the stem “construct”. (Note there is a … Continue [...]