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Bigger on the Inside
Personal blog · blog.chewxy.com · on HN as chewxyprogrammingai
Bigger on the Inside is a personal blog at blog.chewxy.com about programming and ai. Since 2012, 18 different Hacker News readers have linked it 78 times, most often “Tensor Refactor: A Go Experience Report”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-04-01, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Commenters cite this blog's post on biased algorithms as a reference, arguing that algorithms are the wrong layer for fixing racist outcomes. Other comments touch on JavaScript and Go testing.
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?
- Tensor Refactor: A Go Experience Report5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2017-09-11
- Go for data science4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2017-11-02
- OCaml is Pretty Great (2019)3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2019-02-20
- What to Test? Using callgraph to prioritize test writing for Go code3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2017-03-23
- Eyetracking Jetpack Joyride, Smash Hit and Dungeon Keeper2 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2014-04-13
- What Every JavaScript Developer Should Know About Floating Point Numbers2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2014-02-24
- How to Make Money2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-09-30
- Gorgonia: a library like Theano or TensorFlow, mainly written in Go2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-09-19
- How to Use Go Interfaces2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-03-19
What Hacker News says?
https://blog.chewxy.com I occasionally write technical stuff on machine learning, statistics or Golang etc. Basically whatever suits my fancy. Been on the HN front page a few times.
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on “Ask HN: What is your blog and why should I read it?”Submitted How to Use Go Interfaces as a story · 324 points
HN discussionActually barring some metabolic disorder, calories in calories out IS correct. Not only is it correct, I find that bodies are quite mechanical in that nature. I wrote about my experience losing weight and gaining abs a couple of years ago (complete with statistical analyses of what matters and what does not): http://blog.chewxy.com/2015/12/02/holy-crap-ive-got-abs/#350... I've since maintained (and gained more visib…
Comment linking /2015/12/02/holy-crap-ive-got-abs/
on “Ask HN: What is the biggest untapped opportunity for startups?”Submitted Gorgonia: a library like Theano or TensorFlow, mainly written in Go as a story · 180 points
HN discussionI used an animated SVG to explain backpropagation: https://blog.chewxy.com/2016/12/06/a-direct-way-of-understan... It was A LOT of work
Comment linking /2016/12/06/a-direct-way-of-understanding-backpropagation-and-gradient-descent/
on “Where are all the animated SVGs?”Submitted Why Does A Good Kettle Cost $90+? as a story · 176 points
HN discussionIs the list supposed to degenerate to noise? edit: also add my blog! https://blog.chewxy.com
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on “The Internet of creation disappeared. Now we have surveillance and control”Submitted OCaml is Pretty Great (2019) as a story · 128 points
HN discussionNot sure if this is helpful, but I wrote a long response to The Best: http://blog.chewxy.com/2012/11/08/the-best-really/ In this I raise the point of "the best" being a meaningless measure as we're actively bombarded by lack of information and other factors that make us terrible in making calls on whether something is "the best". I think it's rather hollow to claim that one wants 'the best' and yet doesn't discount…
Comment linking /2012/11/08/the-best-really/
on “The Best”Submitted Roast Your Coffee In Two Stages – Now With OpenCV Tricks as a story · 35 points
HN discussionGHC Core is. Haskell is far from small https://blog.chewxy.com/2014/09/03/small-languages/
Comment linking /2014/09/03/small-languages/
on “Why Is SQLite Coded in C? (2017)”Submitted Why 1 && 2 == 2 as a story · 35 points
HN discussionMy toolkit hasn't changed since 2016: - Jupyter + Pandas for exploratory work, quickly define a model - Go (Gonum/Gorgonia) for production quality work. (here's a cheatsheet: https://www.cheatography.com/chewxy/cheat-sheets/data-scienc... . Additional write-up on why Go: https://blog.chewxy.com/2017/11/02/go-for-data-science/ ) I echo ms013's comment very much. Everything is just tools. More important to understand…
Comment linking /2017/11/02/go-for-data-science/
on “Ask HN: As a data scientist, what should be in my toolkit in 2018?”Submitted Eyetracking Jetpack Joyride, Smash Hit and Dungeon Keeper as a story · 11 points
HN discussionThank you. :) I usually have massive nerves when I give talks. I once remarked how average Go is: https://blog.chewxy.com/2019/02/20/go-is-average/
Comment linking /2019/02/20/go-is-average/
on “Go Turns 10”Submitted Go Is a Pretty Average Language but OCaml Is Pretty Great as a story · 7 points
HN discussionGreat job Josh. I wrote a version of this too[0], but yours is much much better and in depth. I enjoyed it a lot more too :) [0] http://blog.chewxy.com/2014/02/24/what-every-javascript-deve...
Comment linking /2014/02/24/what-every-javascript-developer-should-know-about-floating-point-numbers/
on “What every computer programmer should know about floating point, part 1”Submitted Go for data science as a story · 7 points
HN discussionIt's also very helpful in discovering the best spots to test your code : https://blog.chewxy.com/2017/01/04/what-to-test/
Comment linking /2017/01/04/what-to-test/
on “What the Four Color Theorem Can Teach Us About Writing Software”Submitted Pointer Tagging in Go as a story · 7 points
HN discussiona touch screen is essentially one big button. It hides away all the complexities of a physical interface. The problem with this is people tend to add a lot of extras. I wrote[0] that the internet radio thing cannot be done in the Tesla without a touchscreen. FWIW, this idea is slightly better than the one in my Tesla screen complaint, but still not any better. [0] http://blog.chewxy.com/2014/02/04/the-switchless-swi…
Comment linking /2014/02/04/the-switchless-switch/
on “A New Car UI: How touch screen controls in cars should really work”Submitted Small Programming Languages - What does "small language" mean? as a story · 6 points
HN discussionI put it to you that most other language communities do not deliberate as much on generics. Consider the document that Ian Lance Taylor put out: https://github.com/golang/proposal/blob/master/design/15292/... More research here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vrAy9gMpMoS3uaVphB32uVXX... I have also given it a bit of thinking on the tradeoffs: https://blog.chewxy.com/2017/09/11/tensor-refactor/#some-tho... The G…
Comment linking /2017/09/11/tensor-refactor/
on “Russ Cox’s response to “Go Is Not a Community Driven Project””Submitted A Direct Way of Understanding Backpropagation and Gradient Descent as a story · 5 points
HN discussionhttp://imgur.com/1wEQJqu This is mine. 2 weeks ago I set out to learn how to write android apps, and do gaze tracking. Story here: http://blog.chewxy.com/2014/04/08/eyetracking-jetpack-joyrid... The result is http://eyemap.io . It's a simple-to-use, affordable gaze tracking analytics system with your tablet. I'm still testing if people actually want the service. It's hard to make sense of it, because people sign up…
Comment linking /2014/04/08/eyetracking-jetpack-joyride-smash-hit-and-dungeon-keeper/
on “Propose HN: Screenshot Saturday”Submitted The BNF Dream as a story · 4 points
HN discussionWhich is why I put my shitty scripts in gist (in fact I am such a shitty programmer, I practically have an empty github public profile), I share them in my blog, and last week, I was actually horrified that someone used my shitty scripts and shitty methods that I outlined in my blog ( http://blog.chewxy.com/2012/11/16/random-documents-from-couc... ), I removed my gist. I don't want people to use my shitty methods or…
Comment linking /2012/11/16/random-documents-from-couchdb/
on “If You Call Out Bad Code, Make Sure It's Bad First”Submitted How to Make Money as a story · 4 points
HN discussionAhem. Let me be the first to say, YUCK!!! I don't understand why people like this language. I am sure it has it's uses etc., but come on, if you want to build a reliable, easy-to-reason program, using JS is just running up a escalator that is going down. https://abdulapopoola.com/2015/09/30/why-javascript-seems-to... http://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2012/js/ http://dorey.github.io/JavaScript-Equality-Table/ https://www…
Comment linking /2014/01/27/javascript-wat-again/
on “JavaScript Conquered the Web, Now It’s Taking Over the Desktop”Submitted What Every JavaScript Developer Should Know About Floating Point Numbers as a story · 4 points
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