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Ben Schmidt
Personal blog · benschmidt.org/postdataweb
Ben Schmidt's personal blog at benschmidt.org covers data and web. Since 2014, 14 different Hacker News readers have linked it 18 times, most often “JavaScript and the next decade of data programming (2020)”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Ben Schmidt's writing on JavaScript for data programming, including WebGPU and the missing numerical tooling, and his analysis of RateMyProfessor reviews. Commenters point readers to the JavaScript piece.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- JavaScript and the next decade of data programming (2020)4 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2021-03-08
- Happy WebGPU Day (2023)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-10-03
- Interactive Analysis of Gendered Language in Teaching Reviews2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-02-06
- Interactive Gendered Language in Teaching Evaluations from Rate My Professor2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-02-27
What Hacker News says?
I think you will be interested to read this article about the future of data programming in JavaScript ( http://benschmidt.org/post/2020-01-15/2020-01-15-webgpu/ ). I do think that this kind of thing will be able to be built on top of WebGPU (I saw this experimental POC that did so recently: https://github.com/milhidaka/webgpu-blas ). The only issue is that since JavaScript doesn't support operator overloading even…
Comment linking /post/2020-01-15/2020-01-15-webgpu/
on “Modern Javascript: Everything you missed over the last 10 years (2020)”Submitted JavaScript and the next decade of data programming (2020) as a story · 122 points
HN discussionHow about just starting with "a compiler in the browser"? From [1]: > the web was first built in the 90s to share complicated academic work People complain a lot about the results of research not being replicable because people withhold their code when they publish, but the fact is that even then it's not guaranteed that anyone will be able to get it to work. Heck, there are plenty of run-of-the-mill software projec…
Comment linking /post/2020-01-15/2020-01-15-webgpu/
on “OpenAI's Codex sure knows a lot about HN [video]”Submitted Search across every word from 25 years of the Simpsons as a story · 103 points
HN discussionYou should absolutely read "JavaScript and the next decade of data programming" by Ben Schmidt [1] before outright saying that it wouldn't be a great idea. JavaScript does have integers (e.g. `Uint8Array`) and it also has big numbers (e.g. `BigInt`). It's true that there's not yet an equivalent to Numpy/Pandas/Scikit yet, but POCs show that it will be possible to create such a thing and that we will be able to use t…
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on “JavaScript for Data Science”Submitted JavaScript and the next decade of data programming as a story · 4 points
HN discussionIf I put in "understand", female professors outrank males in Physics! But this is for both positive and negative reviews. What the heck does it all mean? Can female professors be both better and worse at explaining Physics concepts? http://benschmidt.org/profGender/#
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on “11 things I learned abt academia by analysing 14 mil. RateMyProfessor reviews”Submitted Show HN: Interactive Chart Of Which Jobs a College Degree Actually Gets as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Happy WebGPU Day (2023) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted JavaScript and the next decade of data programming as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Gendered Language in Teaching Reviews as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Interactive Gendered Language in Teaching Evaluations from Rate My Professor as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Happy WebGPU Day- Ben Schmidt as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted JavaScript and the next decade of data programming as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Where Is the History Diaspora? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted JavaScript and the next decade of data programming as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Gendered Language in Teacher Reviews as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Interactive Analysis of Gendered Language in Teaching Reviews as a story · 1 points
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