Poor Man's Autograd

Deriving the code for differentiating code. Inspired by microgpt.

Surprise! A derivation of entropy

I explain entropy to myself

Escaping Echochambers

Using PCA and clustering on Imgur posts to explore how recommendation systems create digital echo chambers, and how to counter them.

Markov Chains – Random Text Generation

How Markov chains generate grammatically plausible random text from a corpus, and how multi-threading speeds up building the prefix-suffix table.