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Branton DeMoss

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Branton DeMoss's personal blog at brantondemoss.com covers ai and science. Since 2020, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times, most often “Love Letter to KataGo or: Go AI past, present, and future”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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9mentions?
5HN people?
2020–2024first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 8 in 2020

Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link Branton DeMoss's writing on Go AI, including a post on KataGo and the impact of Go AI on professional Go. One commenter found a post enjoyable for its background.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Love Letter to KataGo or: Go AI past, present, and future
    4 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2020-06-02

What Hacker News says?

  1. Along these lines, I work in geophysics/AI right now and trained a GAN on some seismic data, which people usually visualize with ridgeline/joy plots (literally just realized people call them joyplots because of the joy division cover...). It ended up looking pretty cool: https://brantondemoss.com/seismicdream

    Comment linking /seismicdream

    on “Exploration of Generative Art”
  2. Submitted Love Letter to KataGo or: Go AI past, present, and future as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  3. joerickard · 2020-08-28Recommends
    A friend put out a related post that I found enjoyable. It has some good background information. https://brantondemoss.com/writing/kata/

    Comment linking /writing/kata/

    on “Impact of Go AI on the professional Go world”
  4. Submitted Seismic GAN: a walk through latent space as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  5. Related demos, repositories, papers and posts: More recent and extensive post: https://blog.janestreet.com/deep-learning-the-hardest-go-pro... Site to play against KataGo: https://online-go.com/player/592684/ Arxiv paper on KataGo design: https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.10565 GitHub repository of KataGo: https://github.com/lightvector/KataGo Another writer commenting on the history of Go AI, and significance of KataGo: h…

    Comment linking /writing/kata.html

    on “Much More Efficient Self-Play Learning in Go”
  6. Submitted Love Letter to KataGo or: Go AI past, present, and future as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Love Letter to KataGo or: Go AI past, present, and future as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted The Complexity Dynamics of Grokking as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted Go AI Past, Present, and Future as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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