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PayPal is exploring a stock-trading platform for its U.S. customers(cnbc.com)
2 points by mdm12 5y ago|0 comments
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by mdm12 5y ago
Another option for ML-variant fans is F#, which has a REPL as well (built into many tools such as Rider or VS, or as a standalone 'fsi' executable).
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by mdm12 5y ago
An Introduction to Programming in Emacs Lisp[0] is how I've been learning it recently. [0] https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/eintr.html
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by mdm12 5y ago
Speaking of regulation, Biden apparently expressed interest in a federal credit bureau under the CFPB https://finance.yahoo.com/news/biden-wants-shut-down-credit-...
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by mdm12 6y ago
In a similar vein, Fable (an F#-to-JS compiler) is gaining a lot of momentum in the F# community. https://fable.io/
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by mdm12 6y ago
The problem (as I see it, anyways) is that the 'big boys' that I referred to in my initial comment have been around a long time (2000 for C#, 1995 for Java) and over that long history, have had a slew of language changes. They are
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by mdm12 6y ago
I meant 'v' as in 'version' of C#, here's a good reference on it: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/whats-new/csh...
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by mdm12 6y ago
We see similar developments with C# borrowing features from F#, with records in v9, pattern matching, etc. While it's good for C#/Java, it does make it harder to push for adoption for a language such as Scala and F#. Why bother in
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A Tutorial on Hidden Markov Models (1989) [pdf](courses.physics.illinois.edu)
3 points by mdm12 6y ago|0 comments
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by mdm12 6y ago
Speaking of domain-driven design, the author of this article wrote a great book called 'Domain Modeling Made Functional', which I heartily recommend (even if you don't have a specific interest in learning F#) https:/&#x
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U.S. Bill H.R.69 introduced – To make daylight savings time permanent(congress.gov)
345 points by mdm12 6y ago|335 comments
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by mdm12 6y ago
With Guido being a Microsoft employee now, that may just happen...
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by mdm12 6y ago
MS is making a conscious effort to push into the ML space with libraries such as ML.NET https://dotnet.microsoft.com/apps/machinelearning-ai/ml-dotn... . IMO, the combination of a strongly-typed language with feat
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by mdm12 6y ago
C# will be getting records in .NET 5, which would be analogous to what you refer as 'immutable data pieces', in addition to the normal objects the language has always had. https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet&#x2F
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by mdm12 6y ago
https://engaging-data.com/fire-calculator/ provides separate inputs for retirement spending and current spending. It also supports different projection methods (fixed returns, Monte Carlo, etc.)
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by mdm12 6y ago
Bartozs Milewski wrote a book called Category Theory for Programmers and has a series of lectures on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/user/DrBartosz I found it to be thorough and relatively gentle (for something as abst