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Feb 9, 2015 at 23:03
The vast majority of C compilers have a hand-written recursive descent parser. It's rare to see yacc in the wild.

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May 4, 2019 at 12:11
An excellent overview of the different gradient descent algorithms, and a nice example of content that is available as both a responsive website and a PDF on arXiv:
An overview of gradient descent optimization algorithms
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Gradient descent is the preferred way to optimize neural networks and many other machine learning algorithms but is often used as a black box. This post explores how many of the most popular gradient-based optimization algorithms such as Momentum, Adagrad, and Adam actually work.
Apr 28, 2018 at 15:18
Superb article on the history of parsers, what approaches are used in industry (mostly hand-written recursive descent!) and the expressiveness of parser combinators and PEG.
Parsing: a timeline -- V3.1