~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.
Thursday, Apr 4

Reap.vim: Read, evaluate, and annotate code in vim (permalink)

made by rodarmor, submitted by nicholasbs
Reap.vim hijacks the = operator to run Python 3 source code directly from vim buffers, annotating it with values and output. — nicholasbs
Wednesday, Apr 3

Implementing Neural Style Transfer from Scratch using PyTorch (permalink)

made by rileywong, submitted by nicholasbs
A beautiful collection of images generated using style transfer, along with code and instructions so you can try making more yourself. — nicholasbs
Friday, Feb 15

Cisp: A Common Lisp Interpreter Built in COBOL (permalink)

made by lauryndbrown, submitted by nicholasbs
My favorite part about this project is that it implements recursion using file processing! — nicholasbs
Tuesday, Feb 5

Mapping the whole internet with Hilbert curves (permalink)

made by Benjojo, submitted by nicholasbs
Ben sent 3.7 billion packets to effectively all of the reachable internet, and then visualized the results. — nicholasbs
Sunday, Feb 3

Ping at the speed of light (permalink)

made by wesleyac, submitted by nicholasbs
How quickly do packets travel across the Internet? — nicholasbs
Friday, Feb 1

Octopus Checkers (permalink)

made by Alec, submitted by nicholasbs
A game of checkers built in JavaScript with no libraries or external dependencies. — nicholasbs
Thursday, Jan 31

Type Erasure in Scala (permalink)

made by squidarth, submitted by nicholasbs
An overview of type erasure, generic types, and reflection in Scala. — nicholasbs
Sunday, Jan 27

Parson: A PEG parser combinator in Python (permalink)

made by darius, submitted by nicholasbs
This library includes many excellent examples, ranging from a JSON parser written in only 30 lines of code to a working BASIC interpreter. — nicholasbs
Monday, Jan 21

How To Predict Any Three Events More Accurately (permalink)

made by kao, submitted by nicholasbs
An exploration of the James-Stein Estimator, and the surprising result that historical averages of even *unrelated* events can help yield better predictions! — nicholasbs
Thursday, Jan 17

Phonetron – designing and building a DIY cellphone (permalink)

made by Kevin Lynagh, submitted by nicholasbs
Kevin designed and built his own high-end "dumbphone" — nicholasbs