Mrs Fitz is on Kangaroo Island at the moment. Her phone is not answering. I hope she is OK.
The rain is moving from the north-west. Adelaide has just had a bucketing and now it is heavy over Kingscote.
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Update
I’ve just heard from her. She was down the western end of the island. All is well.
This month’s QMSDNUG meeting is fortunate to be addressed by Joel Pobar in a re-run of his well-received Tech.Ed Australia 2009 DEV450 session.
Microsoft, Google, Netflix, Amazon and more, are using smart algorithms that leverage ever increasing clock cycles, and a plethora of user generated data, to find patterns that derive value. They’ve brought smart software to the attention of the software development mainstream: PageRank, Machine Learning, Support Vector Machines, classification techniques, search and rank, and more.
We explore some of these algorithms and their implementations using a new functional programming language for the Microsoft .NET platform, called F#. It has features and techniques that make working with data and building smarts much easier.
We’ll start with a walk through of the language, then get right down to hacking out smart algorithms that you can leverage in your own software.
Date: Tuesday 15 Sep 2009
Time: 17:30 for 18:00
Location: Microsoft Brisbane office, Level 9, Waterfront Place, 1 Eagle St, Brisbane
RSVP
All welcome. Bring your colleagues.
If you haven’t already done so, an immediate rsvp by email to mike@fitzsimon.com.au will help with planning.
These details are also on our website at www.qmsdnug.org.
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Update 15 Sep 09
Joel has an excellent blog post, Why F#? (TechEd ‘09 DEV450) with links to the source code and the PPT slides used in his presentation to QMSDNUG.
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