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arg min blog
Personal blog · archives.argmin.netaimath
arg min blog is a personal blog at archives.argmin.net about ai and math. Since 2024, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times. The last post was in 2022, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Ben Recht's blog for posts on machine learning validity, overfitting, and the connection between optimal control and backpropagation. Commenters point to it as background on these topics.
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.
Musings on systems, information, learning, and optimization.
Most-linked posts?
- /2016/05/18/mates-of-costate/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-02-05
What Hacker News says?
I was listening to an episode of the "inControl" podcast [1], in which Ben Recht suggested that overfitting is not always well understood. Perhaps it is interesting to read his blogpost "Machine Learning has a validity problem" alongside this article. [1] https://www.incontrolpodcast.com/ [2] https://archives.argmin.net/2022/03/15/external-validity/
Comment linking /2022/03/15/external-validity/
on “Too much efficiency makes everything worse (2022)”Submitted The Best Things in Life Are Model-Free (2018) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI don't know if there is a particular paper exactly, but Ben Recht has a discussion of the relationship between techniques in optimal control that became prominent in the 60's, and backpropagation: https://archives.argmin.net/2016/05/18/mates-of-costate/
Comment linking /2016/05/18/mates-of-costate/
on “Who Invented Backpropagation?”Submitted Reflections on Random Kitchen Sinks as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI recently read another great post by the same author about the connection between optimisation with constraints and backpropagation algorithm https://archives.argmin.net/2016/05/18/mates-of-costate/ Apparently based on older LeCun's paper.
Comment linking /2016/05/18/mates-of-costate/
on “Prediction Games”