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andersource
Personal blog · andersource.dev · on HN as andersourceaimath
andersource is a personal blog at andersource.dev about ai and math. Since 2020, 17 different Hacker News readers have linked it 65 times, most often “Generating an Organic Grid (2020)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-20, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (9) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for its posts on the Dunning-Kruger effect as autocorrelation and on generating organic triangle grids like those in Townscaper. Commenters debate the Dunning-Kruger argument.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 9 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Experiments and musings
Most-linked posts?
- /2022/04/19/dk-autocorrelation.html6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2022-05-11
- Generating an Organic Grid (2020)4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2020-11-06
- I can't let go of “The Dunning-Kruger Effect is Autocorrelation”3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-04-19
What Hacker News says?
I strongly relate. I spent a couple of weekends working on some procedural art [0] and was pretty happy with the end result. When I showed it to some of my co-workers / manager, they were baffled . "Uhh.. OK. Why did you make this?" [0] https://andersource.dev/2020/10/10/procedural-butterfly.html
Comment linking /2020/10/10/procedural-butterfly.html
on “Why I prefer making useless stuff”Submitted I can't let go of “The Dunning-Kruger Effect is Autocorrelation” as a story · 468 points
HN discussionhttps://andersource.dev
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on “Ask HN: Share your personal site”Submitted The faulty digital clock problem as a story · 91 points
HN discussion>Arguably the hypothesis that matches the data from the DK paper best is: "Everyone thinks they're average regardless of skill level" No, if you look at the graph[0] everyone thinks they are above average (over 50). The worst think they are a little above average and everyone else thinks they are better and better but increasing by less than the real difference. At any rate, the issue seems to be with how people ima…
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on “I can't let go of “The Dunning-Kruger Effect is Autocorrelation””Submitted Image color replacement with numerical optimization as a story · 78 points
HN discussionDefinitely not a comprehensive treatment, but I wrote about some specific use cases from the basics here: https://andersource.dev/2019/08/25/fun-with-matrix-exponenti...
Comment linking /2019/08/25/fun-with-matrix-exponentiation.html
on “GraphBLAS – Graph algorithms in the language of linear algebra”Submitted Procedural Butterfly as a story · 56 points
HN discussionAnother interesting system is the messy organic grid from Townscaper. https://andersource.dev/2020/11/06/organic-grid.html
Comment linking /2020/11/06/organic-grid.html
on “Triangle Grids”Submitted Adventures in Imbalanced Learning and Class Weight as a story · 49 points
HN discussionSEEKING WORK | Machine learning / Data science | Remote (Israel) Machine learning engineer with strong software dev background. Excited about: * Algorithms and optimizations * Computer vision * Translating experts’ domain knowledge and intuition into concrete methods and metrics * Finding patterns in behavior * Creating interactive visualizations to explore complex data and interactions https://andersource.dev/ | da…
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on “Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (May 2024)”Submitted The faulty digital clock problem (2021) as a story · 37 points
HN discussionSEEKING WORK | Remote | Data Science Need to solve a nonstandard optimization problem? Could use an interactive visualization to explore complex data? I'd love to hear about it! https://andersource.dev/ hi@<username>.dev
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on “Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (June 2022)”Submitted Exploring how different framings of the same learning task affect performance as a story · 32 points
HN discussionPretty clever. Somewhat related, if you want to match the colours of an entire image to an other, you can use optimal transport [1] Unrelated, the author has a very nice take on generating the organic grid from Oskar Stålberg’s Townscaper game [2]. [1]: https://codimd.math.cnrs.fr/s/2eRBqV9zl [2]: https://andersource.dev/2020/11/06/organic-grid.html
Comment linking /2020/11/06/organic-grid.html
on “Image color replacement with numerical optimization”Submitted Spraying Digital Graffiti as a story · 17 points
HN discussionCheck out Townscaper. https://andersource.dev/2020/11/06/organic-grid.html
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on “Triangle Grids (2022)”Submitted I can't let go of “The Dunning-Kruger Effect is Autocorrelation” as a story · 15 points
HN discussionSEEKING WORK | ML & DS | Remote Have a nonstandard optimization problem? Could use an interactive visualization to explore complex data? I'd love to hear about it! daniel@andersource.dev https://andersource.dev
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on “Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (November 2022)”Submitted Uncertainty Principle in software R&D as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSEEKING WORK | Machine learning / Data science | Remote (Israel) | 10-20 hrs/week Machine learning research engineer with strong software dev background. Excited about: * Algorithms and optimizations * Computer vision * Translating experts’ domain knowledge and intuition into concrete methods and metrics * Finding patterns in behavior * Creating interactive visualizations to explore complex data and interactions htt…
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on “Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (June 2024)”Submitted Interactive data exploration utilities with dimensionality reduction and D3.js as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSEEKING WORK | Remote | Data science & software dev Have a nonstandard optimization problem? Could use an interactive visualization to explore complex data? I'd love to hear about that! https://andersource.dev/ hi@<username>.dev
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on “Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (April 2022)”Submitted Wood-like texture generation and animation as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI'd echo other comments suggesting examining closely what you really need to do (e.g. "how to be productive" is a very loaded question for me, modern society tends to way overemphasize the importance of "being productive" to the detriment of many.) If you really are struggling doing things you absolutely have to do, my suggestion is using an exhaustive TODO list where each action item takes ~10 minutes, that can get…
Comment linking /2022/11/25/the-exhaustive-todo-list.html
on “Ask HN: How to do that you need to do but not motivated at all?”Submitted Using a mobile device as a rotation controller (2019) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSEEKING WORK | Machine learning / Data science / Fun UI / funky algorithmic stuff | Remote (Israel) Machine learning engineer with strong software dev background. Excited about: * Algorithms and optimizations * Computer vision * Translating experts’ domain knowledge and intuition into concrete methods and metrics * Finding patterns in behavior * Creating interactive visualizations to explore complex data and interac…
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on “Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (July 2024)”Submitted 27-28 Role Reversal as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSEEKING WORK | Remote | Data science & software dev Have a nonstandard optimization problem? Could use an interactive visualization to explore complex data? I'd love to hear about that! https://andersource.dev/ hi@<username>.dev
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on “Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (March 2022)”Submitted Ode to My Office Lethargy as a story · 2 points
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