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Steepest Ascent Hill Climbing in C# and F#

Posted Monday, December 28, 2009 2:21 PM by RickM
Recently I’ve been working with some local search techniques and wanted to share my Steepest Ascent Hill Climbing solution. The general idea of Steepest Ascent Hill Climbing is that in each iteration of the hill climbing process you apply a set of transforms Read More...
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F# Discoveries This Week 12/21/2009

Posted Monday, December 21, 2009 12:10 PM by RickM
By far the most exciting news this week was the preview release of Microsoft Research Accelerator.  Posts on this topic by Satnam Signh and Tomas Petricek have left the F# world buzzing.  This, however, is just the tip of the F# iceberg.  Read More...
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F# and You! - New Hampshire User’s Group and Beyond

Posted Monday, October 26, 2009 12:24 PM by RickM
I’ve been working for a while on a new presentation which I was finally able to give last week at the New Hampshire .NET User Group .  F# and You! focuses on painting the big picture about F# instead of the off-putting details like having to learn Read More...
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Discoveries This Week 05/24/2009

Posted Sunday, May 24, 2009 10:24 PM by RickM
An exciting week with the release of Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 and F# 1.9.6.16.  This week we have John Backus’s classic FP manifesto,  Luke Hoban speaks on F# in VS2010 beta 1, Django for ASP.NET, and an article on breaking changes in the latest Read More...
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F# for Testing and Analysis at Code Camp 11 New England

Posted Friday, March 27, 2009 6:36 PM by RickM
At this Saturday’s Code Camp I’ll be giving a brand new presentation on using F#.  The goal of this presentation is to have those attending leave with an idea of what F# can help them achieve today as well as instill a desire to know more.  Read More...
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As a FP Ambassador - F# for Testing and Analysis at Code Camp 11

Posted Thursday, March 19, 2009 12:00 PM by RickM
Over the last six months I’ve given variations on the same F# presentation on six separate occasions. Each time I’ve gotten a similar response: enthusiasm from a small percentage of the audience and glazed-over stares from the majority. In retrospect Read More...
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