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Justin Meiners
justinmeiners.github.io · Personal blog · on HN since 2018
Justin Meiners, a programmer, writes about virtual machines, literate programming, math-minded coding, and early neural nets, with small projects.
What HN saysHN links it for the LC-3 virtual machine tutorial, its neural net simulator, and a foundations-of-math reading list; one commenter defends his experience.
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What HN people wrote when they linked it
justinmeiners · 2019-08-09
Computation: Finite and Infinite is one of my favorite books.
It's fascinating to see computation built up from the theory of neural networks.
Marvin Minsky is just such a deep thinker and writer.
For those who are interested I made the neural net system into a simulator:
https://justinmeiners.github.io/neural-nets-sim/
kouh · 2019-07-28
Excellent list, I would merge with https://justinmeiners.github.io/foundations-of-math-reading/
shakna · 2021-09-08
The inspiration [0] is written in C.
[0] https://justinmeiners.github.io/lc3-vm/
jsyedidia · 2021-03-02
Here's another long literate program that was written using Literate:
https://justinmeiners.github.io/lc3-vm/
mettamage · 2019-07-21
His CV suggests something otherwise. He is experienced.
https://justinmeiners.github.io/files/cv.pdf