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During the vacation, Simon worked on several programming projects playing with language and grammar, from Daniel Shiffman’s Programming from A to Z course at New York University. Those included creating a new … Continue reading Analysis and generation of text-based data. What else to do on vacation?
Had great fun last week playing with the code Simon wrote following along Daniel Shiffman’s RiTa.JS tutorial. The code generated words from the built-in RiTa lexicon, and that lexicon is … Continue reading RiTa.JS
What sort of literature do you fancy in the evening? Simon’s downloaded the book The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants tonight. Here Simon explained to me how L-systems and Cantor Set … Continue reading L-Systems
Simon has studied Context-Free Grammar, following a set of tutorials from Daniel Shiffman’s ITP course “Programming from A to Z“. Context-Free Grammar is a set of recursive “replacement” rules to define … Continue reading Context-Free Grammar
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