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builder, tech entrepreneur, math & physics major

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Einstein Solid Heat Capacity on the HP-15C

If you own an HP-15C, one of the greatest pocket scientific calculators ever built, you’re already holding a small numerical laboratory. In this post we’ll turn it into a statistical-mechanics engine.

An informal look at Java 8, Part 1

With the new release of the Java programing language coming up, it'd be a good time to reflect on some of the major enhancements made to the language.

Server downtime - back with a cleaner look

After a great trip to the US this past November and having attended a few cool meetups that I really enjoyed such as the Haskell Hackers event at the Hacker Dojo in Mountain View, I came back home to find out that my server was compromised and there was a $400 bill waiting for me for outbound data charges.

Speaking at upcoming events

Here is a list of talks I'll be giving at the upcoming events/seminars.

Raspberry Pi in a Haskell Cloud

In the previous post, we walked through installing and running Haskell on Raspberry Pi. Today, we take this exploration further by evaluating the possibility of running R-Pi in a Haskell Cloud and we attempt to answer some important questions.

Running Haskell on Raspberry Pi

Few months ago, I ordered the Raspberry Pi, an ARM GNU/Linux box that fits into a palm of my hand and costs a mere $25. It arrived the past Monday and I couldn't wait to get my hands on it to see what it can do.

Hs-task: An in-code task management utility

Hs-task is an in-code task management utility written in Haskell. I wrote hs-task some time back and finally got around to releasing it into the wild with hopes that others find it useful.

A journey into the world of Purely Functional Data Structures

In the past three years, I have spent a considerable amount of time learning the ins and outs of the functional programming paradigm. The time has now come for me to better grasp the implementation concepts of purely functional data structures.

Haskell: an attempt at tic-tac-toe

Here is a quick tic-tac-toe game I wrote in Haskell this weekend and I'm pretty pleased with my first attempt.

And we are live

So it is the 4th of August 2011 and I have finally gotten around to breathing some life into this domain I purchased in early 2008. As the saying goes, better late than never.