I am a New England-based dad and technology, photography and sports enthusiast. Rooting for Ohio State, the Bengals, Celtics, McLaren F1 and, of course, my kids' sports teams. Sideline photographer. Tinkering with programming and Linux administration.
Trying to learn #fsharp so be prepared for many beginner type posts!
"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge"
- Charles Darwin, in "The Descent of Man", 1871
| Blog | https://blog.samirparikh.com |
| GitHub | https://github.com/samirparikh |
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| Previously, on the Fediverse | https://fosstodon.org/@samir |
RE: https://me.dm/@amit/116234975006924685
Amit's post struck a nerve with me as I often experience this, not just with writing/reading blogs but also with many other hobbies. I wrote a bit about this in response
https://blog.samirparikh.com/2026/03/do-what-makes-you-happy.html
RE: https://fosstodon.org/@drdrang/116224540395844092
Inspired by this post, I decided to try to replicate Dr. Drang's Python script finding the frequency of the 13th day of the month in #fsharp. And no, I'm not trying to home on in his territory!
https://blog.samirparikh.com/2026/03/using-f-sequences-to-count-instances-of.html
What a race of attrition. 4 DNSs and 7 total DNFs, including last year’s top 3 WDC
Case in point: I had never encountered the concept of "lazy evaluation" before (or at least don't recall it if I did). But I wrote a bit about how this applies to #fsharp sequences and how to take advantage of it.
https://blog.samirparikh.com/2026/03/lazy-evaluation-of-sequence-in-f.html
Adrian
