~nicholasbs

nicholasbs’s posts on Joy of Computing

Bio: I help run the Recurse Center. In my spare time, I like learning Mandarin and walking around New York.
Wednesday, Nov 20

Natural Language Processing: can a computer solve SAT analogy questions? (permalink)

made by michelle, submitted by nicholasbs
An exploration of how to use natural language processing to answer SAT-style analogy questions. — nicholasbs
Sunday, Nov 17

Compiling at Compile Time (permalink)

made by hellerve, submitted by nicholasbs
How to put a compiler inside of another compiler using macros and dynamic functions. — nicholasbs
Wednesday, Nov 13

Julia fractal set in Julia (permalink)

made by oscarbennett, submitted by nicholasbs
Using the Julia programming language to generate beautiful images from the Julia fractal set. — nicholasbs
Tuesday, Oct 29

Tinyland (permalink)

made by emma, submitted by nicholasbs
Tinyland is a very, very small Dynamicland. — nicholasbs
Monday, Oct 28

My First PCB! (permalink)

made by lindzey, submitted by nicholasbs
A step-by-step overview of how to design and fabricate a PCB. — nicholasbs
Wednesday, Oct 23

Git from the inside out (permalink)

made by maryrosecook, submitted by nicholasbs
A 6,000-word deep dive that explains the innards of how Git works. — nicholasbs
Tuesday, Oct 22

Make a computer vision-based video game that doesn't feel janky with this one weird trick (permalink)

made by doron, submitted by nicholasbs
An overview of building Toot, a 7-foot tall arcade game that uses a concealed camera for computer vision. — nicholasbs
Saturday, Oct 19

Real-World Natural Language Processing (permalink)

made by mhagiwara, submitted by nicholasbs
Early access chapters from the upcoming book, Real-World Natural Language Processing. — nicholasbs
Wednesday, Oct 16

LVCA: Language Verification, Construction, and Analysis (permalink)

made by joel, submitted by nicholasbs
LVCA is a tool for building programming languages with a small core. You create a language by specifying (1) its syntax, (2) its statics (i.e., typechecking rules), (3) its dynamics (i.e.m, how it evaluates), and (4) its concrete syntax. — nicholasbs
Thursday, Oct 10

Imp: Dev and design log (permalink)

made by jamii, submitted by nicholasbs
Imp is an emacs-like live programming environment with a versioned database, a pure language built around relations, and an extensible GUI. This is a development log for the project, along with a working playground. — nicholasbs