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Learning Journey

Hello there! πŸ‘‹ My name is Sean Miranda, and I’m a computer science student. When I was young, I became interested in technology. It was the early days of my junior high school. I experimented with the operating system of my Android phone. I was basically doing distro-hopping on my phone. It genuinely excites me every time I learn how to perform technological tasks. I am currently studying programming language theory and compiler design....

May 14, 2022 Β· 3 min Β· 591 words Β· Sean Miranda
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ChatGPT

The OpenAI’s Generative Pre-trained Transformer Model A short brief information about: Transformer Model Vaswani et al. introduced the Transformer model, a type of neural network architecture, in 2017, and it has since become one of the most popular and commonly used models in natural language processing. (NLP). The Transformer model is built around the concept of attention, which allows it to choose focus on specific parts of the input sequence while processing it....

March 31, 2023 Β· 2 min Β· 417 words Β· Sean Miranda
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Learning the Basics of Go

A Walkthrough to Go Syntax and Features A brief history of the Go programming language, which was founded by the legends of computer science: Ken Thompson, Rob Pike, and, lastly, Robert Griesemer. Go development was started in 2007 and was funded by Google even until now. Go is an open source, general purpose programming language that has Google’s support. Being open source does not automatically imply that it is open to collaboration....

February 12, 2023 Β· 9 min Β· 1738 words Β· Sean Miranda

Best Code Editor: Lapce

Introduction to Lapce: the blazingly fast code editor A brief summary... Lapce is written purely in Rust and a potential competitor to Visual Studio Code, along with Zed and JetBrains Fleet, a blazingly fast code editor of the 21st Century. It is currently in the pre-alpha stage of development. It has the potential to stand side by side with VS Code when the first major release comes up. One of the problems that I see with the current state of the development of Lapce is that, it has fewer contributors compared to older and more popular code editors such as VS Code....

October 8, 2022 Β· 4 min Β· 824 words Β· Sean Miranda
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Carbon

The Carbon Language πŸͺ¨ Backed by Google An Experimental Successor to C++ Carbon is the new experimental programming language started by Google, they started this experimental language two years ago and only made it public this year. The development is lead by Principal Software Engineer, Chandler Carruth, which he introduced on CppNorth conference in Toronto last July 17, 2022 via Youtube. Planned Features πŸ“– Interoperability with C++ Cargo will be able to import existing C++ code and libraries, this will be the main selling point of this experimental language....

August 8, 2022 Β· 3 min Β· 596 words Β· Sean Miranda