Nick Fisher - Blog

I've been working on flutter_filament for some time now, a package that enables cross-platform 3D rendering in Flutter apps with the <a hr...

I was happy to recently discover the jaspr project, a Dart framework for generating dynamic and static HTML/JS pages with a pseudo-Flutter syntax. It's a fa...

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

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. That's understandable - regular expressio...

A number of recent papers have explored learning in deep neural networks without backpropagation, oft...

I'm obliged to issue a severe warning to anyone who found their way here. DO NOT DO anything I explain below. Seriously. I'd sooner recommend juggling a pair of flamin...

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 that can ...

Let's say our WPF application has an ItemsControl whose ItemsSource is bound to an ObservableCollection. {{&lt; highlight python &gt;}} <UserControl x:Class="Lexico.View.UserControl1" xmlns="http:/...

Let's assume we have a sequence of words, and we want to predict, as accurately as possible, whether each word is a name, verb, or some other part of speech. This is equivalent to predicting...