Richard Minerich's guest appearances

Richard Minerich

Hanselminutes with Scott Hanselman

Functional Geekery

The F# Show

Rachel Reese

Dave Thomas

Andy Hunt

Carin Meier

Scott Wlaschin

Andrea Magnorsky

Eric Normand

Ashley Bell

David Brevik

Arlan Hamilton

Donald Glover

Sarah Cooper

Scott Adams

Daniel José

Jordan Adler

OwlTail

In this episode Troy talks to Richard (Rick) Minerich about machine learning in F#. Rick tells us how he got started in machine learning, the good and bad parts of using F# and how he is currently writing machine learning algorithms in F# to find money launderers. It's quite an adventure.

A Machine Learning Journey in F# with Richard Minerich


In this episode I talk with Richard Minerich.  We cover his intro to F#, benefits of using F#, the inter-op story with the rest of the .NET Framework, and the direction of growth for F#. Our Guest, Richard Minerich http://richardminerich.com/ @rickasaurus on Twitter rickasaurus on Vimeo rickasaurus on GitHub BayardRock on GitHub Announcements Listeners of Functional Geekery get 10% off CodeMesh 2014 when you use offer code fngeekery10. The ErlangCamp organizers are giving listeners of Functional Geekery 15% off the price of tickets for ErlangCamp 2014 with offer code FNG15.  This discount applies to tickets for dinner with the speakers as well. Topics About Richard Minerich Bayard Rock How Rick got into F# Exposure to Clojure via attending Rich Hickey’s Ant Colony Simulation presentation Rick’s take on a F# ant colony simulation F# is a ML family language for the .NET runtime “Less code is more” Open sourcing of F# and tools Growing adoption of F# Bing Advertising system and Halo ranking system are built using F# Finance Companies picked up F# F# Type Providers F# adoption growing in a Alt.NET style Type Erasure in F# Properly encoded types, drastically reduces bug Expressions not statements F# is single pass, but leads to low dependencies C# vs F# dependencies in projects blog post “Put your functions in a data structure and call them after lookup” Good places to prove out usage of F# “All problems are better solved in F#” than C# Pattern Matching to help with complicated domain logic Great for testing C# code Simple Made Easy F# is simple, but with depth Interoperability between F# and C# Dependencies availability in F# Type Providers for calling into other languages F# expanding to OS X and Linux via Mono Why Rick has interest in Haskell Idris and dependent types F# Tutorials Presenting at CodeMesh 2014 Editor’s Note – After the call finished recording, Rick mentioned another good place for introducing F# is the build process, by using Fake A giant Thank You to David Belcher for the logo design.

In this episode I talk with Richard Minerich. We cover his intro to F#, benefits of using F#, the inter-op story with the rest of the .NET Framework, and the direction of growth for F#. <h2>Our Guest, Richard Minerich</h2> <a href="http://richardminerich.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">http://richardminerich.com/</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">@rickasaurus</a> on Twitter <a href="http://vimeo.com/rickasaurus" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">rickasaurus</a> on Vimeo <a href="https://github.com/rickasaurus" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">rickasaurus</a> on GitHub <a href="https://github.com/BayardRock" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">BayardRock</a> on GitHub <h3>Announcements</h3> Listeners of Functional Geekery get 10% off <a href="http://www.codemesh.io/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">CodeMesh 2014</a> when you use offer code fngeekery10. The <a href="http://erlangcamp.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">ErlangCamp</a> organizers are giving listeners of Functional Geekery 15% off the price of tickets for ErlangCamp 2014 with offer code FNG15. This discount applies to tickets for dinner with the speakers as well. <h3>Topics</h3> About Richard Minerich <a href="http://www.bayardrock.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Bayard Rock</a> How Rick got into F# Exposure to Clojure via attending <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGVqrGmwOAw" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Rich Hickey’s Ant Colony Simulation</a> presentation Rick’s take on a <a href="https://github.com/Rickasaurus/F--Ant-Colony" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">F# ant colony simulation</a> F# is a ML family language for the .NET runtime “Less code is more” Open sourcing of F# and tools Growing adoption of F# Bing Advertising system and Halo ranking system are built using F# Finance Companies picked up F# F# Type Providers F# adoption growing in a <a href="http://Alt.NET" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Alt.NET</a> style Type Erasure in F# Properly encoded types, drastically reduces bug Expressions not statements F# is single pass, but leads to low dependencies <a href="http://fsharpforfunandprofit.com/posts/cycles-and-modularity-in-the-wild/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">C# vs F# dependencies in projects</a> blog post “Put your functions in a data structure and call them after lookup” Good places to prove out usage of F# “All problems are better solved in F#” than C# Pattern Matching to help with complicated domain logic Great for testing C# code <a href="http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Simple Made Easy</a> F# is simple, but with depth Interoperability between F# and C# Dependencies availability in F# Type Providers for calling into other languages F# expanding to OS X and Linux via Mono Why Rick has interest in Haskell <a href="http://www.idris-lang.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Idris</a> and dependent types <a href="https://skillsmatter.com/conferences/1886-progressive-f-tutorials-nyc-2014" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">F# Tutorials</a> Presenting at <a href="http://www.codemesh.io/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">CodeMesh</a> 2014 Editor’s Note – After the call finished recording, Rick mentioned another good place for introducing F# is the build process, by using <a href="https://fsharp.github.io/FAKE/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Fake</a> A giant Thank You to <a href="https://twitter.com/davidjbelcher" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">David Belcher</a> for the logo design.

Functional Geekery Episode 14 - Richard Minerich

Phillip Trelford

Richard Minerich and Phillip Trelford run popular F# users groups and work with F# every day. They take this opportunity to educate Scott on powers of F# and it's place in the .NET ecosystem. Are you missing out by not using F# in your .NET projects today?

Richard Minerich and Phillip Trelford run popular F# users groups and work with F# every day. They take this opportunity to educate Scott on powers of F# and it's place in the .NET ecosystem. Are you missing out by not using F# in your .NET projects today?

Why F#? with Richard Minerich and Phillip Trelford