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Ben Wiener
Personal blog · blog.benwiener.comprogrammingscience
Ben Wiener writes You've Reached the Center of the Internet, a personal blog at blog.benwiener.com about programming and science. Since 2018, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-04-01, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
One commenter links a 2017 post on the blog as prior exploration of what minimalist art means, with a URL pointing to Sol LeWitt. The thread is about minimalist art, and the comment cites the post as a source.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
It's a blog
Most-linked posts?
- /programming/art/2017/08/24/lewitt.html2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-10-18
What Hacker News says?
Love it! I implemented something similar in Mathematica: http://blog.benwiener.com/programming/art/2017/08/24/lewitt.... My friend implemented it in Elm: http://www.philipzucker.com/elm-eikonal-sol-lewitt/
Comment linking /programming/art/2017/08/24/lewitt.html
on “Solving Sol”Submitted Reinventing the Wheel: Discovering the Optimal Rolling Shape with PyTorch (2019) as a story · 117 points
HN discussionit turns out someone else has explored this exact question: http://blog.benwiener.com/programming/art/2017/08/24/lewitt.... As for what minimalist art "means", I think that's taking the wrong approach. It's more about how you feel when looking at it, what does it remind you of, what non verbal parts of your mind are activated?
Comment linking /programming/art/2017/08/24/lewitt.html
on “Solving Sol”Submitted Covid Vaccine Delays – Why? as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted Homebrew Inverted Pendulum with LQR Control as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Haskell Solver for the O'Gear Mechanical Puzzle as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Solving the Brachistochrone with PyTorch as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Reinventing the Wheel: Discovering the Optimal Rolling Shape with PyTorch as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Reinventing the Wheel: Discovering the Optimal Rolling Shape with PyTorch as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Homebrew LQR Inverted Pendulum/Cart Pole as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Playing Flappy Bird with Model Predictive Control as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Teaching a Car to Drive with PyTorch and Trajectory Optimization as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Optimizing Steering Car Paths with PyTorch as a story · 1 points
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