Programming Leftovers

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Feb 05, 2024

• Adam Young: Vector times Matrix in C++

  The basic tool for neural networks is: vector times matrix equals vector. The first vector is your input pattern, the second is your output pattern. Stack these in a series and you have a deep neural network. The absolute simplest implementation I could find for this is in C++ using boost.

• Version 1.1.0 of NIMBLE released

  We’ve released the newest version of NIMBLE on CRAN and on our website. NIMBLE is a system for building and sharing analysis methods for statistical models, especially for hierarchical models and computationally-intensive methods (such as MCMC,Laplace approximation, and SMC).

• Perl / Raku

  • Oddmuse: The Flat-file Self-hosted Perl-based Wiki Engine since 2003

    Oddmuse is a free and open-source self-hosted wiki that started back in 2003. It is basically a simple Perl script that can build you a complex wiki engine by using your local filesystem to store, restore and version your pages.

• Python

  • Reading and Processing Large Files in Python

    To read a large text file in Python without loading it into memory, you use a technique that reads the file line by line. This is achieved by opening the file in a context manager (with statement) and iterating over it with a for loop.