Unfortunately that time of year has crept up… school has started again. And not just any kind of school: I find myself in 12^th 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 …

I worked for a while last week on the PICKLE implementation in Python. As I no longer have to work on the garbage collector, after I wrote a little “glue code” I immediately dove into the core functionality of PICKLE: the pattern-matching engine. Once I get the algorithm down, I …

I’ve been doing a little bit of everything lately. I’ve done a little work on PICKLE, trying to implement it first in Python so I don’t have to worry about the garbage collector. (The pattern-matching code is extremely complicated and screwed with my brain until I realized …

I did a lot of work on Tinobsy, the garbage collector for PICKLE. It’s pretty robust now, and passes all my tests – plus I translated it to C++ so I can take advantage of C++’s syntactic sugar for objects. All I think that I’ll be doing with …

Yet again I find myself writing a garbage collector.

I did a little work on PICKLE’s Javascript implementation, and perhaps Javascript is not the right choice. Because Javascript’s inheritance model is so similar to PICKLE’s, yet slightly different, implementing the inheritance (even with ES6 Proxys) is …

I’m starting to work on my Pickle programming language, this time in Javascript. After only a few days’ work, I’m surprised I got so much working. Currently I have both the tokenizer and the inheritance system working. The syntax of Pickle is pretty much in place now, and …

I’ve been working quite a lot on my second programming language attempt, PICKLE. Admittedly, programming it in C has been a real chore. I started following the Make-A-Lisp tutorial to try to give myself some plan for executing PICKLE. Mal, unfortunately, recommends dynamically typed languages; that unfortunately is a …

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 …

I’ve been playing around a little bit with LIL on my ESP32 arduino. It works, but there are a few things I don’t like. LIL isn’t object-oriented by default, so I can’t do a lot of what I am used to writing code in Javascript and …