In my last post, I wrote about using FParsec to build a user input validator with parser combinators. »

For most of us, when it comes to manipulating or interpreting some chunk of plain text, our first instinct will be to reach for regular expressions.... »

A number of recent papers have explored learning in deep neural networks without backpropagation, often motivated by the apparent biological implausibility of backpropagation. »

I’m obliged to issue a severe warning to anyone who found their way here. »

Gradient descent is a spectacularly effective optimization technique, but it’s not the only method for optimizing non-convex functions. There are a number of alternative numerical methods... »