Lucas V. Schuermann — Writing Blog and writings https://lucasschuermann.com/ 2017-07-29T00:00:00.000Z Lucas V. Schuermann https://lucasschuermann.com/ Langton's Ant https://lucasschuermann.com/writing/langtons-ant 2017-07-29T00:00:00.000Z 2017-07-29T00:00:00.000Z In this post, we cover fascinating properties of Langton's ant, a simple 2-dimensional Turing machine, and simulate with Javascript code. Implementing SPH in 2D https://lucasschuermann.com/writing/implementing-sph-in-2d 2017-07-08T00:00:00.000Z 2017-07-08T00:00:00.000Z This brief tutorial covers implementing a real time 2D smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) fluid simulation in C++ with open source code. Notes on LSTMs for Time Series Prediction in Finance https://lucasschuermann.com/writing/notes-on-lstms-in-finance 2017-04-06T00:00:00.000Z 2017-04-06T00:00:00.000Z These notes provide a brief introduction to LSTMs and their applications in time series prediction in quantitative finance. Particle-Based Fluid Simulation with SPH https://lucasschuermann.com/writing/particle-based-fluid-simulation 2016-05-23T00:00:00.000Z 2016-05-23T00:00:00.000Z This tutorial explains the math behind real-time fluid simulation, breaking down the smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) framework. C/C++ Essentials Review https://lucasschuermann.com/writing/c-essentials-review 2016-05-04T00:00:00.000Z 2016-05-04T00:00:00.000Z This post covers a short (and informal) review of C/C++ topics. The Math Behind Backpropagation https://lucasschuermann.com/writing/math-behind-backpropagation 2016-02-27T00:00:00.000Z 2016-02-27T00:00:00.000Z This tutorial explains the math behind backpropagation, deriving the weight changing algorithm for a neural network from gradient descent. Intro to Neural Networks https://lucasschuermann.com/writing/intro-to-neural-networks 2016-02-24T00:00:00.000Z 2016-02-24T00:00:00.000Z In this tutorial you will learn the core concepts of neural networks: how they work, how to train them, and how to apply them to ML. The Ising Model https://lucasschuermann.com/writing/ising-model 2016-02-24T00:00:00.000Z 2016-02-24T00:00:00.000Z This tutorial explains the quantum origins of ferromagnetism and shows how to implement an Ising model simulation in Python. Web Scraping in Python https://lucasschuermann.com/writing/web-scraping-in-python 2016-02-08T00:00:00.000Z 2016-02-08T00:00:00.000Z This tutorial explains how to scrape the web using Python and the Scrapy library. Java Review https://lucasschuermann.com/writing/java-review 2015-03-01T00:00:00.000Z 2015-03-01T00:00:00.000Z This post covers a short (and informal) review of Java and data structures topics.