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Chris von Csefalvay
Personal blog · chrisvoncsefalvay.comprogrammingaidata
Chris von Csefalvay's personal blog at chrisvoncsefalvay.com covers programming, ai and data. Since 2014, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-04, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for a post on language as an intermediate representation for LLMs, and for a statistical network analysis of Gamergate.
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.
Chris von Csefalvay, Distinguished Engineer at HCLTech: sensing and reasoning for embodied AI, world models, post-training and robotic surgery.
What Hacker News says?
Reminds me of [Language as Intermediate Representation]( https://chrisvoncsefalvay.com/posts/lair/ ) - LLMs are optimized for language, so translate an image into language and they'll do better at modeling it.
Comment linking /posts/lair/
on “Show HN: Tarsier – Vision utilities for web interaction agents”Submitted Julia: A Post-Mortem as a story · 107 points
HN discussionIt has nothing to do with that, and there's no evidence to back up the claim that gamergate is a harassment campaign, which seems to be what you are implying. Here's an actual, statistical network analysis: http://chrisvoncsefalvay.com/2014/12/07/Gamergate.html The only issue I have with the Tor statement is, who actually thinks harassment is a good thing, except sadistic individuals? It's a false dichotomy. The tro…
Comment linking /2014/12/07/Gamergate.html
on “Solidarity against online harassment”Submitted Write error messages that don't suck as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted Understanding types and inheritance in Julia as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted A footnote to Gamergate as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted This is why we can't have nice things (R and Python) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The #juliabook is here as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted A new book on the hottest new language for data science: Learn Julia as a story · 1 points
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