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Tezos et OCamlPro

Tezos est aujourd’hui un projet open source, un réseau international développé par des équipes sur plus de cinq continents. Dans la genèse du projet, l’entreprise française OCamlPro, qui développe encore aujourd’hui de nombreux projets liés à Tezos (TZscan, Liquidity, etc.), a joué u...

31 Jan 2019

OCamlPro

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Improving Tezos Storage : update and beta-testing

In a previous post, we presented some work that we did to improve the quantity of storage used by the Tezos node. Our post generated a lot of comments, in which upcoming features such as garbage collection and pruning were introduced. It also motivated us to keep working on this (hot) topic, and we ...

30 Jan 2019

OCamlPro

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Tezos and OCamlPro

A reflection on the new year… Today, Tezos is a global network and an open source project with developers spanning over five continents. In the inception of this project, the French company OCamlPro which, to this day, stills develops numerous projects around Tezos, played a particularly important...

29 Jan 2019

OCamlPro

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L2 Regularization and Batch Norm

This blog post is about an interesting detail about machine learningthat I came across as a researcher at Jane Street - that of the interaction between L2 re...

29 Jan 2019

Jane Street Tech Blog

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opam 2.0.3 release

We are pleased to announce the release of opam 2.0.3. This new version contains some backported fixes: Fix manpage remaining $ (OPAMBESTEFFORT) Fix OPAMROOTISOK handling Regenerate missing environment file Installation instructions (unchanged): From binaries: run or download manually from the Github...

28 Jan 2019

OCamlPro

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Improving Tezos Storage

Running a Tezos node currently costs a lot of disk space, about 59 GB for the context database, the place where the node stores the states corresponding to every block in the blockchain, since the first one. Of course, this is going to decrease once garbage collection is integrated, i.e. removing ve...

15 Jan 2019

OCamlPro

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A tutorial for building web applications with Incr_dom

At Jane Street, our web UIs are built on top of an in-house frameworkcalled Incr_dom, modeled inpart on React’s virtualDOM. Rendering differentviews efficien...

15 Jan 2019

Jane Street Tech Blog

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