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Arthur Flam

Personal blog · shapescience.xyz/blog · on HN as aflamdataprogramming

Arthur Flam writes Shapescience, a personal blog at shapescience.xyz about data and programming. Since 2016, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times, most often “10 pieces of advice to beginner data scientists”. The last post was in 2021, but the archive is still widely read.

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11mentions?
3HN people?
2016–2022first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 7 in 2016

Arthur Flam's blog on algorithms, data science and software engineering. It's slowly taking shape!

The author on HN?

aflam · 64 karma · member since 2013

@ArthurFlam, Samsung, shapescience.xyz

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Most-linked posts?

  1. 10 pieces of advice to beginner data scientists
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2016-10-24

What Hacker News says?

  1. The long and convoluted debugging cycle for machine learning really hurts my faith in ML models. This issue - with some practical advice - was the center of this interview (disclaimer: author). https://shapescience.xyz/blog/interview-data-science-methodo... I'm convinced we lack decent tools for ML debugging: what could they be?

    Comment linking /blog/interview-data-science-methodology/

    on “Why is machine learning ‘hard’?”
  2. Submitted 10 pieces of advice to beginner data scientists as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  3. Data science now has its own tree-sorting questions. Shameless plug, but since the submission is popular, some could find this helpful: https://shapescience.xyz/blog/interview-questions-for-data-s...

    Comment linking /blog/interview-questions-for-data-scientists/

    on “Amazon data science interview questions”
  4. Submitted The shortcomings of data science as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  5. Last year I wanted to have a table custom built using those shapes. It's easy with CNC: https://shapescience.xyz/blog/creating-a-super-ellipsis-tabl...

    Comment linking /blog/creating-a-super-ellipsis-table/

    on “Apple's Unique Device Curvature”
  6. Submitted Interactive introduction to optical modulation as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Reducing overplotting in scatterplots as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted Advice to beginner data scientists as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted 10 pieces of advice to beginner data scientists – Shape Science as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted Interactive introduction to optical modulation as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted Reducing overplotting in scatterplots as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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