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orpc 0.3

I am happy to announce version 0.3 of orpc , a tool for generating RPC bindings from OCaml signatures. Orpc can generate ONC RPC stubs for u...

03 Apr 2010

Jake Donham

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Updated backtrace patch

I’ve updated my backtrace patch to work with OCaml 3.11.x as well as 3.10.x. The patch provides access to backtraces from within a...

28 Mar 2010

Jake Donham

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Toward Interactive Statistical Modeling

Abstract When solving machine learning problems, there is currently little automated support for easily experimenting with alternative statistical models or solution strategies. This is because thi...

27 Mar 2010

Ashish Agarwal

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Inside OCaml objects

In the ocamljs project I wanted to implement the OCaml object system in a way that is interoperable with Javascript objects. Mainly I wante...

23 Mar 2010

Jake Donham

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Creating Stream Combinators in Haskell’s Stream Fusion Library

So I took a look at the Haskell Stream Fusion library the other day, and got the idea to write a new append combinator that would merge the two streams in sort order. This seemed simple enough to c…

21 Mar 2010

Mike McClurg

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Reading Camlp4, part 5: filters

Hey, long time no see! It is high time to get back to Camlp4, so I would like to pick up the thread by covering Camlp4 filters . We have p...

03 Mar 2010

Jake Donham

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Java Concurrency Annotations

I’ve been reading a series of papers by Chandrasekhar Boyapati on extensions to the Java type system. I found his papers on ensuring race-free programs by specifying that objects are either i…

12 Feb 2010

Mike McClurg

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XML for Resumes

I hate writing resumes because there are no good tools for the job. I would prefer to use an open source word processor, such as Open Office, but companies often ask for MS Word format, which OO do…

10 Feb 2010

Mike McClurg

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