In a recent StackOverflow question the poster asked about the difference between tupled and curried form of a function in F#. In F#, you can use pattern matching to easily define a function that takes a tuple as an argument. For example, the poster's fun[...]

Welcome to F# Weekly, A roundup of F# content from this past week: News FSharp.Data 1.1.10 was released with a bunch of bugfixes. RProvider 1.0.1 was released with latest R.NET and RDotNet.FSharp inside. Francesco De Vittori works on type inference for Sm[...]

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[...]

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[...]

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[...]

Recently, Cesar De Souza began moving his .NET machine learning library, Accord.NET, from Google Code to GitHub. The move is still in progress, but that motivated me to take a closer look at the library; given that it is built in C#, with an intended C# u[...]

In F#, you can’t overload a let–bound function, and whilst it’s a hindrance sometimes you can generally work around it easily enough since you can still overload members of a class. All you need to do is to wrap the module and constituent functions into a[...]

I have been back for about a week now, after nearly three weeks on the road, talking about F# all over the US. The first day I woke up in my own bed, my first thought was “where am I again? And where am I speaking tonight?�?, now life is slowly getting bac[...]

Welcome to F# Weekly, A roundup of F# content from this past week: News Canopy 0.8.0 was released with PhantomJS support. Brahma.FSharp(F# quotation to OpenCL translator) is available on NuGet. Will Smith embedded FSI in Quake3 (part 2). Paris F# User Gro[...]