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Andy Jones
Personal blog · andyljones.com · on HN as andyljonesaiscience
Andy Jones writes andy l jones, a personal blog at andyljones.com about ai and science. Since 2020, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 18 times, most often “Debugging Reinforcement Learning Systems While Retaining Your Sanity”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-12-08, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked for his quarantine bread recipe, which commenters say is easy to make and hard to get wrong, and for a write-up on debugging reinforcement learning, cited as a guide.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
andy jones personal site
Most-linked posts?
- Debugging Reinforcement Learning Systems While Retaining Your Sanity3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-03-16
- Quarantine Bread3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-03-19
- Post-Mortem Python Plotting2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-03-06
- Horses: AI progress is steady. Human equivalence is sudden2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-12-08
What Hacker News says?
For an easy and delicious recipe, try Andy Jones' "quarantine bread" [1]. I was rarely baking bread before, but this recipe changed that completely. As he mentions, it is really really hard to mess up. I once put it in the oven without folding. Thought that this was irrecoverable. It wasn't. Turned out great. [1] https://andyljones.com/posts/bread.html
Comment linking /posts/bread.html
on “I told a cat food company how much they’d save by using taller cans (2020)”Submitted Horses: AI progress is steady. Human equivalence is sudden as a story · 581 points
HN discussionWe've started making bread every night for the next day, and I've heard many of my friends are doing this. It's better than what we get in the local bakeries (we don't live in France) and have already discussed continuing to bake now that we figured out some easy tricks. We started here : https://andyljones.com/posts/bread.html
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on “People are planting more vegetable gardens”Submitted Quarantine Bread as a story · 209 points
HN discussionThis is especially true when it comes to reinforcement learning: what people should take away from the bloodstained guides written by past RL programmers, it is one thing at a time : https://andyljones.com/posts/rl-debugging.html https://clemenswinter.com/2021/03/24/my-reinforcement-learni... https://blog.nelhage.com/post/systems-that-defy-understandin... Never make multiple changes. Test every case where you have a…
Comment linking /posts/rl-debugging.html
on “Trackmania Nightmares”Submitted Multipole Methods for the Masses as a story · 82 points
HN discussionSubmitted Headlines about coronavirus case counts are worthless as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Show HN: Megastep, 1M FPS reinforcement learning on a single GPU as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Coronavirus Contrarianism: The British strategy // Maybe I will go outside as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Post-Mortem Python Plotting as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Horses: Steady progress in automation makes for sudden transitions as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Debugging Reinforcement Learning Systems as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Debugging Reinforcement Learning Systems While Retaining Your Sanity as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Precision advice, collateral damage, bright lines and balancing tests as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Good Judgement Project's superforecasters expect 250m cases by next April as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Post-Mortem Python Plotting as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted An in-browser, interactive model of the Coriolis effect (Desktop only) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Clearer Proof of the Policy Gradient Theorem as a story · 1 points
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