Back in July, I had the following conversation with a friend over lunch:
Friend: What’s the most confusing computer science topic you’ve ever encountered? Explain it to me.
Me: Continuations. They’re a way for a program to manipulate its own call stack as if it were data …
I guess I lied. About five months ago, I posted some thoughts about an upcoming Python interactive fiction engine, where the world model is not actually a tree, but simulated as such by relations. For example, there could be an apple inside of a refrigerator, and while it would make …
In a previous post, I started some mental planning for an interactive fiction engine in Python. I picked it up again last week and started working on a new version. Custom logic is implemented using a tiny Python library I created called json_runner, which as you might guess, is capable …
Unfortunately that time of year has crept up… school has started again. And not just any kind of school: I find myself in 12th grade, balancing seven classes, two with AP tests at the end, three with huge final projects. I’m also trying to apply to college at …
I am not an expert in machine learning by any means. I do not understand the mathematics behind a neural network, much less how to implement one. My preferred method of teaching computers what to do is by writing code, not training machine learning models. Yet, strangely, today I find …
For the past week or two I have been working on a few things simultaneously. I keep prototype code that I’m developing but not quite ready to release yet in private GitHub repositories, and publish them when I’m ready. Lately I’ve been working on two different and …