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A mathematician at risk

Personal blog · blog.noblemail.camathdataprogramming

A mathematician at risk is a personal blog at blog.noblemail.ca about math, data and programming. Since 2009, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times. The last post was in 2021, but the archive is still widely read.

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2009–2014first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 3 in 2013

Once I was a mathematician, then I wrote PHP, now I analyze risk

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  1. avibryant · 2013-01-28

    Submitted On calculating Fibonacci numbers in C as a story · 109 points

    HN discussion
  2. wvanbergen · 2012-05-03

    Submitted Analyst, measure thyself as a story · 46 points

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  3. snoble · 2012-11-26

    Submitted Dimsum is like head or tail, but pulls randomly from the entire file or stream as a story · 29 points

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  4. snoble · 2014-03-23

    Submitted How often should you retrain your model? as a story · 25 points

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  5. lachyg · 2013-12-20

    Submitted Successful data teams hustle as a story · 15 points

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  6. avibryant · 2009-10-29

    Submitted A mathematician's take on the importance of the H1N1 vaccine as a story · 2 points

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  7. snoble · 2013-02-04

    Submitted Simple cross domain tracking as a story · 1 points

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