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Breandan Mark Considine
Personal blog · breandan.net · on HN as bmc7505programmingaiscience
Breandan Mark Considine writes Breandan's Blog, a personal blog at breandan.net about programming, ai and science. Since 2015, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 19 times, most often “Trust in Automation (2017)”. The last post was in 2020, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked for posts on computation graphs, program synthesis and trust in automation. Comments mention GraalVM and Futamura's ideas, and the commenters' own bias and trust in automation. They do not judge the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Trust in Automation (2017)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-07-20
What Hacker News says?
I disagree that programming is dying -- tools like Copilot will lead to a Renaissance in the art of computer programming by enabling a larger population to design programs and explore the implications of their design choices. I wrote a short essay [1] on the history automated programming and where I think it is heading in the future. [1]: https://breandan.net/public/programming_with_intelligent_mac...
Comment linking /public/programming_with_intelligent_machines.html
on “Competitive Programming with AlphaCode”Submitted Trust in Automation as a story · 79 points
HN discussionI previously used IntelliJ IDEA on Linux for over eight years, so I can sympathize with your struggles. [1] Recently I started using OSX because my Thinkpad finally died and I could not find another laptop I liked. So far, it's been pretty bumpy, although I noticed that some things have improved (like fonts and build times). The downside is that many things currently do not work on aarch64 right now, and I somewhat…
Comment linking /2014/08/18/shell-script/
on “Running IntelliJ Idea with JDK 17 for Better Render Performance with Metal”Submitted Computation graphs and graph computation (2020) as a story · 60 points
HN discussion> Do you know any recent work or paper for speech recognition in language teaching area? What you're describing is called "speech verification". Language education is an application I'm personally very interested in, and one that almost no one discusses in the speech community (I assume because of machine translation), so if you find any research papers please let me know! I wrote a little about it: http://breandan.…
Comment linking /2014/02/09/the-end-of-illiteracy/
on “Speech-to-Text-WaveNet: End-to-end sentence level English speech recognition”Submitted A Short History of Shorthand as a story · 10 points
HN discussionYes, I was originally inspired by GraalVM’s work! They were one of the first to realize a practical implementation of Futamura’s ideas. I briefly discuss it towards the end: http://breandan.net/2020/06/30/graph-computation/#programs-a...
Comment linking /2020/06/30/graph-computation/
on “Computation Graphs and Graph Computation”Submitted Programming in the Age of Intelligent Machines as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSure, I made plenty of bad predictions too! I have written about some of the harmful effects of trust and bias in automation, feel free to check it out: https://breandan.net/2017/02/02/trust-in-automation/
Comment linking /2017/02/02/trust-in-automation/
on “Computation Graphs and Graph Computation”Submitted Computation Graphs and Graph Computation as a story · 3 points
HN discussionYes, “program synthesis” or “program induction” are the broader topics, which span automata theory, type theory and (more recently) representation learning. Prior work has relied on classical algorithms like proof search, SMT solvers and learning automata. Recently there has been a lot of progress in applying statistical learning algorithms to program synthesis, as researchers began to realize it shares a lot in com…
Comment linking /2020/06/30/graph-computation/
on “Learning Graph Structure with a Finite-State Automaton Layer”Submitted Programming in the Age of Intelligent Machines as a story · 2 points
HN discussionHey HN, author here! Thanks for reading. If you got through this article, I'm interested in hearing your thoughts! Feel free to PM me (@breandan or bre @ ndan .co). You might also enjoy reading about some of other articles I wrote about notation [1] or democratising education [2]: [1]: http://breandan.net/2015/02/01/shorthand/ [2]: http://breandan.net/2016/04/13/equal-education-in-china/
Comment linking /2016/04/13/equal-education-in-china/
on “Trust in Automation”Submitted Trust in Automation as a story · 2 points
HN discussionAs foretold six years ago. [1] [1]: https://breandan.net/2020/06/30/graph-computation#roadmap
Comment linking /2020/06/30/graph-computation
on “A CPU that runs entirely on GPU”Submitted Trust in Automation (2017) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Democratizing Education in China as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Short History of Shorthand as a story · 1 points
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