I’m Fengyang Wang. Sometimes I go by @TotalVerb. Currently, I study Mathematics at the University of Waterloo.

You can find me on GitHub. Here are some other places you might find me:

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I (try to) maintain a blog, Kaninchensicher. The posts are on a wide variety of topics, but usually I discuss current and future events.

You can also read my résumé, if you like. Thanks for visiting!

Posts

Jun 9, 2020
Black Lives Matter — Donation Matching

Update: This matching has concluded now. Thank you to everyone who contributed!
Feb 5, 2017
EnglishText.jl

I am pleased to announce EnglishText.jl, a library that does all the dirty work of handling English grammatical quirks. Presenting information to users through prose presents many challenges that can be difficult to deal one. Not least of those challenges is figuring out details like how to pluralize words, when to use a or an, and how to write out a list.
Aug 30, 2016
Java and JavaScript

There’s a popular saying out in the wild:
Jul 2, 2016
Call by Sharing

Most people know of two calling evaluation strategies: call-by-value and call-by-reference. Lost in the noise is how the most common evaluation strategy today is really neither of the above. Indeed, many languages, including JavaScript, Java, Julia, Python, Ruby, and countless more, use the “call-by-sharing” evaluation strategy.
Jun 18, 2016
Lispy HTML

I’ve become convinced that s-expressions are one of the best ways to encode data. And HTML, in many ways, is data.
Apr 23, 2016
Multiple Dispatch Tutorial

I have created an IJulia (Jupyter) notebook showcasing automatic differentiation using multiple dispatch in Julia. This is a topic that I thought was quite cool, and I think it illustrates the power of multiple dispatch well. It’s been linked on the Teaching page.
Apr 7, 2016
Number Theory Lessons

I added a new Teaching page which currently contains the Number Theory unit that I am currently teaching at the Grand River Chinese School. For now, it’s buried under a link on the Projects page.
Feb 24, 2016
Projects

I added a new Projects page that contains a few screenshots for my recent and non-recent projects. I intend to update this page frequently to highlight new and interesting projects.
Jan 10, 2016
CS Club Materials

Here is a five-part lesson package, complete with slides and assignments, prepared for the SJAM CS Club 2014–2015. I developed this along with my friend Ian Fox. It’s quite comprehensive and I hope it’s useful for some of you.
Dec 10, 2015
Currencies.jl

This is Currencies.jl, a production-ready library that provides a easy and consistent interface to monetary values. Check it out; the documentation should provide a starting point.
Sep 29, 2015
Announcing Liquid

I finally released one of the projects I’m working on, liquid. It’s a simple game played by two people. The goal is to be the last person to have a legal move.
Aug 25, 2015
Announcing Findr

Along with Ian Fox and Advait Maybhate, at the recent Waterloo Tech Retreat, we made an app that makes finding nearby events much easier. We’re planning to continue working on this app. Right now we’ve got the basic functionality set up.