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Why F#?

If someone had told me a few months ago I’d be playing with .NET again after a 15+ years hiatus I probably would have laughed at this.1 Early on in my career I played with .NET and Java, and even though .NET had done some things better than Java (as it had the opportunity to learn from some early Java mistakes), I quickly settled on Java as it was a truly portable environment. I had some C# courses in the university and I wrote my bachelor’s thesis in C#. It was a rewrite of Arch Linux’s pacman, running on Mono. This was way back in 2007. ↩

30 Mar 2025

Bozhidar Batsov

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Visualizing piecewise linear neural networks

Neural networks are often thought of as opaque, black-box function approximators, but theoretical tools let us describe and visualize their behavior. In part...

11 Jul 2024

Jane Street Tech Blog

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Oxidizing OCaml: Locality

Coming from OCaml, the Rust programming language has many appealingfeatures. Rust’s system for tracking lifetime and ownership allowsusers to safely express...

26 May 2023

Jane Street Tech Blog

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