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Tyler Neylon
tylerneylon.com · Personal blog · on HN since 2010
Tyler Neylon writes about code, math, and philosophy, including Lua, locality-sensitive hashing, neural networks, and consciousness.
What HN saysHN links his Learn Lua in 15 Minutes tutorial and his locality-sensitive hashing explainer, which a commenter praises for its visual explanations.
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tylerneylon · 2023-07-04
https://tylerneylon.com/
The most popular article is "Learn Lua in 15 Minutes." I write about code, math, and philosophy; eg, neural networks, permutations, or consciousness.
I also run a weekly machine learning / AI newsletter:
https://learnandburn.ai/
lgvld · 2022-12-23
Thank you for sharing! Very interesting. I love visual explanations [1]. If I remember correctly, LSH can be used in computer graphics, by instance when computing fluids simulations (where _a lot_ of particles are involved).
The author also wrote an article in which he illustrates RNN in an original and stunning way: https://tylerneylon.com/a/randnn/
[1]: Not related, but you might also enjoy the work of Bartosz Ciechanowski: https://ciechanow.ski/
stefanos82 · 2023-05-28
How about in 15 minutes lol ? https://tylerneylon.com/a/learn-lua/
LewisJEllis · 2015-12-23
For a couple of quick intros, try Learn Lua in 15 Minutes[1] and Learning Lua from JS[2]. For a bit more depth, try the Lua-users Tutorial Directory[3]. For serious depth, the two recommended by Gracana, PIL[4] and the reference manual[5], are fantastic. For an overview of the ecosystem, including some useful gamedev libraries and LÖVE-specific resources, take a look at awesome-lua[6] (my own, shameless plug).
http://tylerneylon.com/a/learn-lua/
http://phrogz.net/lua/LearningLua_FromJS.html
http://lua-users.org/wiki/TutorialDirectory
http://www.lua.org/pil/
http://www.lua.org/manual/5.1/
https://github.com/LewisJEllis/awesome-lua
mambodog · 2014-01-15
You could have linked directly to the file containing the tutorial[1], it's quite readable. I quite like this sort of 'code prose' style, which reminds me of Learn Lua in 15 Minutes [2]. Light Table particularly lends itself to this style, however, as you can go through and selectively evaluate each block of code with CMD+Enter as you read. That said, one could argue that having to manually type into a console would do more for making those bits of code stick around in your brain.
Looking forward to the rest of it!
[1] https://github.com/swannodette/lt-cljs-tutorial/blob/master/lt-cljs-tu…
[2] http://tylerneylon.com/a/learn-lua/
Elv13 · 2013-08-11
http://tylerneylon.com/a/learn-lua/ as simple as it can get. Lua is a very small (in term a amount of syntax) language.