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First Open-Source Release of TzScan

In October 2017, after the Tezos ICO, OCamlPro started to work on a block explorer for Tezos. For us, it was the most important software that we could contribute to the community, after the node itself, of course. We used it internally to monitor the Tezos alphanet, until its official public release...

08 Nov 2018

OCamlPro

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Liquidity Tutorial: A Game with an Oracle for Random Numbers

A Game with an oracle In this small tutorial, we will see how to write a chance game on the Tezos blockchain with Liquidity and a small external oracle which provides random numbers. Principle of the game Rules of the game are handled by a smart contract on the Tezos blockchain. When a player decide...

06 Nov 2018

OCamlPro

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opam 2.0.1 is out!

We are pleased to announce the release of opam 2.0.1. This new version contains mainly backported fixes, some platform-specific: Cold boot for MacOS/CentOS/Alpine Install checksum validation on MacOS Archive extraction for OpenBSD now defaults to using gtar Fix compilation of mccs on MacOS and Nix p...

24 Oct 2018

OCamlPro

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ocaml-git 2.0

I'm very happy to announce a new major release of ocaml-git (2.0). This release is a 2-year effort to get a revamped streaming API offering…

19 Oct 2018

Tarides

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OCamlPro’s TzScan grant proposal accepted by the Tezos Foundation – joint press release

Tezos Foundation and OCamlPro joint press release - October 17, 2018 We are pleased to announce that the Tezos Foundation has issued a grant to OCamlPro to support its work on TzScan, a block explorer for the Tezos blockchain that will be made open-source. OCamlPro is a French company and R&D lab, f...

17 Oct 2018

OCamlPro

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OCamlFormat 0.8

We are proud to announce the release of OCamlFormat 0.8 (available on opam). To ease the transition from the previous 0.7 release here are…

17 Oct 2018

Tarides

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OCaml Workshop 2018

Videos are available online. The OCaml Users and Developers Workshop brings together industrial users of OCaml with academics and hackers who are working on extending the language, type system and tools. Previous editions have been colocated with ICFP 2012 in Copenhagen, ICFP 2013 in Boston, ICFP 2014 in Gothenburg, ICFP 2015 in Vancouver, ICFP 2016 in Nara, and ICFP 2017 in Oxford, following the OCaml Meetings in Paris in 2010 and 2011. OCaml 2018 will be held on September 27th, 2018 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA, colocated with ICFP 2018.

27 Sep 2018

Tarides

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How to shuffle a big dataset

At Jane Street, we often work with data that has a very lowsignal-to-noise ratio, but fortunately we also have a lot of data.Where practitioners in many fiel...

26 Sep 2018

Jane Street Tech Blog

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