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Accelerating zk-SNARKs - MSM and NTT algorithms on FPGAs with Hardcaml

In 2022 a consortium of companies ran an international competition,called the ZPrize, to advance the state ofthe art in “zero-knowledge” cryptography. We dec...

07 Dec 2022

Jane Street Tech Blog

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OCaml 5 Beta2 Release

Just about a month after the OCaml 5 Beta release, the OCaml 5 Beta2 version has been released, taking us one step closer to the full OCaml…

29 Nov 2022

Tarides

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Reading Files in OCaml

One thing I’ve noticed on my journey to learn OCaml was that reading (text) files wasn’t as straightforward as with many other programming languages. To give you some point of reference - here’s how easy it is to do this in Ruby:

27 Nov 2022

Bozhidar Batsov

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Solve the 2022 Advent of Code Puzzles with OCaml

Too many programmers only know OCaml through a functional programming language overview course at university. They erroneously believe OCaml…

24 Nov 2022

Tarides

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Visualizing information propagation in markets

The Dojima rice market, established around 1716, is widely considered tobe the world’s first organized futures exchange. Instead of directlyexchanging money ...

23 Nov 2022

Jane Street Tech Blog

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Six Surprising Reasons the OCaml Programming Language is Good for Business

Functional programming languages have been around since the 1950's, when the first high-level languages were used to program early computers…

22 Nov 2022

Tarides

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What happened in October and November 2022?

Spatial Sway has basically reached the MVP stage, I failed to fully commit to this year’s NaNoWriMo, and someone has worked on adding some support for coqffi to dune.

19 Nov 2022

Thomas Letan’s Blog

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