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Alex Molas
Personal blog · alexmolas.com · on HN as alexmolasmathaiprogramming
Alex Molas's personal blog at alexmolas.com covers math, ai and programming. Since 2023, 12 different Hacker News readers have linked it 90 times, most often “You need more than p-values”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-23, and you can follow it by feed.
Hello, world, I'm Alex, and this is my blog, where I talk about math, machine learning, and other things like cooking.
Most-linked posts?
- You need more than p-values3 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2024-02-23
- Good code is rarely read2 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2023-07-25
- In Defense of LeetCode Interviews2 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2024-06-21
- HN-Index2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-02-13
- Jev Can't Be Calibrated2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-09-23
- Bayesian A/B testing is not immune to peeking2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-11-13
- Why do we minimize the mean squared error?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-07-13
- ChatGPT knows things that Google doesn't2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-01-26
What Hacker News says?
HN post from today that has a more detailed explanation https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49816899 https://www.alexmolas.com/2026/09/23/jev-cant-be-calibrated....
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on “OpenAI is well positioned to fast-follow Jev”Submitted A search engine in 80 lines of Python as a story · 634 points
HN discussion> user: todsacerdoti > created: January 17, 2020 > number of submissions 10798 Do you auto post from some aggregation script, mind disclosing why you do this, what sources do you use? https://www.alexmolas.com/2024/02/12/hn-index.html
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on “The C++ Killers (Not You, Rust)”Submitted Who needs Git when you have 1M context windows? as a story · 177 points
HN discussionsaw this yesterday (when someone else posted your post), thanks for sharing such easy to understand cases which show Jev does not produce real world likelihoods for the choices related, https://www.alexmolas.com/2026/09/23/jev-cant-be-calibrated....
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on “Jev Does Not Play Dice: 83% probability, 19% accuracy on a hidden fair die roll”Submitted Win your fantasy league using operations research as a story · 167 points
HN discussionI did some analysis last year about gender gap in chess [0] and the main conclusion was that a huge part of the gap can be explained by participation imbalance. [0]: https://www.alexmolas.com/2023/08/12/chess-gender-gap.html
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on “Look at this graph: % women in the top-X chess players”Submitted Good code is rarely read as a story · 104 points
HN discussionWhat a coincidence! I wrote about the exact same topic just some weeks ago [0]. [0]: https://www.alexmolas.com/2023/11/14/controversial-movies.ht...
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on “Which Movies Are the Most Polarizing? A Statistical Analysis”Submitted Semantic unit testing: test code without executing it as a story · 75 points
HN discussionI have a list of blogs with RSS [0] from which I populate a dynamic blogroll on my page [1]. This way I don't have to rely on external apps to keep track of my favourite pages. [0]: https://github.com/alexmolas/alexmolas.github.io/blob/master... [1]: https://www.alexmolas.com/blogroll
Comment linking /blogroll
on “Ask HN: Show me your RSS feed subscriptions”Submitted Jev Can't Be Calibrated as a story · 65 points
HN discussionhttps://alexmolas.com I write about math, machine learning, data analysis, and some opinions about different topics.
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on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?”Submitted HN-Index as a story · 40 points
HN discussionSubmitted Optimizing Jupyter Notebooks for LLMs as a story · 32 points
HN discussionSubmitted Stupid by Choice as a story · 31 points
HN discussionSubmitted In Defense of LeetCode Interviews as a story · 24 points
HN discussionSubmitted Something happens to everyone as a story · 22 points
HN discussionSubmitted ChatGPT knows things that Google doesn't as a story · 12 points
HN discussionSubmitted Gender Gap in Chess as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted In Defense of Leetcode Interviews as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Semantic Unit Testing as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted HN-Index as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Bayesian A/B testing is not immune to peeking as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted In Defense of Leetcode Interviews as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted You need more than p-values as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Good code is rarely read as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted You need more than p-values as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted You need more than p-values as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted You need more than p-values as a story · 3 points
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