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Adnan Masood

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Adnan Masood writes R&D, a personal blog at blog.adnanmasood.com about data, ai and science. Since 2012, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.

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2012–2019first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 3 in 2012

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Why HN links it

The only comment is a personal aside on Excel, Word and LaTeX for a thesis, not about the blog's writing. The comments do not show what the linked posts cover.

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  1. I haven't found a good replacement for Excel, maybe its because I learned all my shortcuts in it and anytime I go to something else it just feels "off". I would say the learning curve wasn't to bad for short documents or non-technical stuff I would say word has the edge because its east to just open a new document and type away. For my thesis I chose to use LaTeX because anytime I would try to insert a figure or a t…

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  2. Submitted Selected Papers in Machine Learning as a story · 7 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Bayesian Networks Lectures by Peter Woolf, UM as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted Bayesian inference – A simple example as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted The Fallacies of Data Science as a story · 1 points

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