Hi desi lovers! Service notice: Sorry I missed a post last weekend, I was prepping my F# Exchange talk. If you have not read any of my Desi posts, you can save some time and watch my talk that more or less covers posts 1/5, 8, 15 and 16 (yes, that is this one) If […]
F# versus C#: What are the differences?
tl;dr We are interested in understanding the differences between C# and F#. If you work on a project that has both C# and F# and you want to help science, we would love to monitor your IDE usage and ask your a few questions too. Just download kave, and program like no one is watching for […]
Intro Genetic Programming [Desiderius part #15]
I missed a weekend, sorry guys! I was busy babysitting a five year old and contemplating the LambdaConf situation. To make it up I have a totally fresh and new topic to talk about: genetic programming. I do not want to design a bidding systems, I want to make the best one possible, and for […]
On leaving your politics at home
Prelude I guess most of my readers in tech know what this post is about. This post is about the idea that at a conference on programming (or any other professional topic) it is possible to leave your political views at home. In the (functional) programming space is a very recent and hot controversy at this […]
History repeats [Desiderius #14]
Two weeks ago I talked about the playing logic and the improvements kot_2010 made, but there is a bit more info I want to share. Let’s talk a little bit more about how I designed the playing history. History is a list of lists, where each inner list is a trick. Visually: //An empty game: [ […]