Monads by David Crockford
The monadic curse is that once someone learns what monads are and how to use them, they lose the ability to explain it to other people. Excellent lecture. Transcript and Monads for Humans
Category: Research & Development
State of the IoT Security
In a recent podcast by Scott Hanselman and Erica Stanley, an Internet of Things (IoT) primer, the guest mentioned how security is being treated as an afterthought for most things IoT. This is unfortunately true in various areas of software development; but especially with the unprecedented growth of IoT, this lax in providing security standards will fast…
Penetration Testing techniques in Web Applications - Infographic
Penetration Testing techniques in web applications by Dimitris Mandilaras, Nikolaos Tsalis is an succinct info-graphic review of different security frameworks / methodologies including OWASP, PTES, ISSAF, NIST, OSSTM and PTF. A short poster can be downloaded from here.
Selection of 2014 F# / Functional Programming Resources
Functional Programming For All! Scaling a MOOC for Students and Professionals Alike Reactive Web Applications with Dynamic Dataflow in F# A Tayanovskyy, S Fowler, L Denuzière, A Granicz - ifl2014.github.io The F# Computation Expression Zoo Tomas Petricek, Don Syme Thinking in LINQ: Harnessing the Power of Functional Programming in .NET ... By Sudipta Mukherjee Clash of the…
Gradient Boosting Machine Learning by Prof. Hastie
Here is Prof. Hastie's recent talk from the H2O World conference. In this talk, professor Hastie takes us through Ensemble Learners like decision trees and random forests for classification problems. Other excellent talks from the conference include the following. Michael Marks - Values and Art of Scale in Business Nachum Shacham of Paypal -…
Teaching Functional Programming to Professional .NET Developers
An informative paper by Tomas Petricek of University of Cambridge. Abstract. Functional programming is often taught at universities to first-year or second-year students and most of the teaching materials have been written for this audience. With the recent rise of functional programming in the industry, it becomes important to teach functional concepts to professional developers with deep knowledge of…
Dissertation - Done!
P≠NP - A Definitive Proof by Contradiction
Following the great scholarly acceptance and outstanding academic success of "The Clairvoyant Load Balancing Algorithm for Highly Available Service Oriented Architectures, this year I present P Not Equal to NP - A Definitive Proof by Contradiction. Click here to read the entire paper in PDF. P Not Equal to NP - A Definitive Proof by…
LyX/LaTeX formatting for the C# code
If you are googling trying to find a good way to insert C# code in LyX, this is where you'd probably end up. MaPePer has provided a very good solution; I have modified it slightly (hiding tabs and removing comments) and following is illustration on how to use it in LyX. First thing you'd need is a…
Machine Learning - On the Art and Science of Algorithms with Peter Flach
Over a decade ago, Peter Flach of Bristol University wrote a paper on the topic of "On the state of the art in machine learning: A personal review" in which he reviewed several, then recent books, related to developments in machine learning. This included Pat Langley’s Elements of Machine Learning (Morgan Kaufmann), Tom Mitchell’s Machine Learning (McGraw-Hill), and…