Statistical Approaches Are Actually Pretty Good: A "Mea Culpa" Regarding One Of My Predictions About Text Generation

For some time, I have written blog posts on dev.to about text generation, and even went so far as to collect them into an online ebook. In one of the chapters of said e-book, written in 2016, I made predictions about the future of text generation. One of those predictions was “Statistical Approaches Will Be Part Of A ‘Toolkit’ In Text Generation”.

Deploying GitHub Repos onto repl.it: Easier Than Expected

repl.it is a very useful tool for distributing code snippets for other people to use.

Comparing the Pseudocodes of Cuckoo Search and Evolution Strategies: My First Foray into Understanding Metaheuristics

EDITOR’S NOTE: As a fair warning, half-way through writing this blog post, I realized this whole endevour of comparing the pseudocodes of two different metaheuristics might not have been such a great idea (and may have indeed been a clever act of procrastination). I still posted it online because it may still be useful for other people though, and because I’m somewhat interested in metaheuristics. I also kept my “conclusion” footnote where I came to my realization about exactly how much time I wasted.

Using Pip on Repl.it: An Interesting Experience

BUILD AND DEPLOY IN SECONDS. Instant programming environment for your favorite language.–repl.it’s homepage

Critical Commentary on The "Professional Society of Academics": A Proposal For Reforming Higher Education

In July 2013, Shawn Warren released “A New Tender for the Higher Education Social Contract”, which discussed Shawn Warren’s philosophy concerning the current “status quo” of higher education and his alternative proposal of a “Professional Society”.