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Christopher Olah
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Christopher Olah's personal blog at christopherolah.wordpress.com covers math, ai and programming. Since 2009, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 14 times, most often “The Real 3D Mandelbrot Set”. The last post was in 2014, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (7) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Christopher Olah's blog for posts on Haskell symbolic manipulation, fish shell hacks, a 2011 post on a RepRap project, and a copyright letter. Commenters cite these posts as references.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 7 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- The Real 3D Mandelbrot Set2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-08-08
What Hacker News says?
The article was very very similar to this. https://christopherolah.wordpress.com/2011/08/08/the-real-3d...
Comment linking /2011/08/08/the-real-3d-mandelbrot-set/
on “Developer Skills Report”Submitted The Real 3D Mandelbrot Set as a story · 66 points
HN discussionIn practical use, you can simply search for anything in the "dog" subclass using the WordNet hierarchy... so there is no loss in accuracy unless you have confusion across the search groups! We actually support this in sklearn-theano - if you plug in 'cat.n.01' and 'dog.n.01' for an OverfeatLocalizer we return all matched points in that subgroup. In general, if you misclassify "dog" for a fixed architecture you will…
Comment linking /2014/04/09/neural-networks-manifolds-and-topology/
on “A Revolutionary Technique That Changed Machine Vision”Submitted Rethinking Topology (or a Personal Topologodicy) – Chris Olah (2014) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionYes, it is a Haskell question more than you think ;-) since, for example, using types for fraction or other kind of patterns can work different in Haskell than in other languages. I think it's possible in Haskell to add symbolic manipulation as well like in http://christopherolah.wordpress.com/2012/06/01/hasksymb-an-... or http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/wadler/realworld/docon2.html Also, there are implementations in…
Comment linking /2012/06/01/hasksymb-an-experiment-in-haskell-symbolic-algebra/
on “The Evolution of a Haskell Programmer”Submitted Unicode For Mathematical Typesetting as a story · 1 points
HN discussionInteresting. You're the second recommendation I've been given for Munkres. This list of recommended books in topology: http://www.math.cornell.edu/~hatcher/Other/topologybooks.pdf suggests some other books over it, however. Personally, I've just started reading Hocking & Young (Shocking and Fun!) and it seems quite good so far. I've made some substantial progress in _Counterexamples in topology_ and it's really good…
Comment linking /2010/03/09/compactness-graph/
on “Math Books Organized by Area of Mathematics”Submitted Fractal Holiday/Solstice/Christmas Cards as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI posted a couple of hacks for fish here: http://christopherolah.wordpress.com/2009/06/13/a-couple-fis...
Comment linking /2009/06/13/a-couple-fish-hacks/
on “Fish - The friendly interactive shell”Submitted Alien minds and mathematics (universal language, yet different flavors) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionYou're right, and, in addition to being the creator of this vacuum (which I designed in a few hours), I'm a core developer of the hacklab-reprap ( https://github.com/hacklabto/Hacklab-RepRap ; you can see my last update on it at http://christopherolah.wordpress.com/2011/01/24/hacklab-repr... ). Unfortunately, I can't focus on that 24/7 and occasionally work on other projects...
Comment linking /2011/01/24/hacklab-reprap-coolness-2/
on “Print a Vacuum Cleaner”Submitted Cleverbot vs Emacs Psychiatrist as a story · 1 points
HN discussionMy letter can be found here: http://christopherolah.wordpress.com/2009/09/12/my-letter-to... Feedback is appreciated. It hasn't been sent yet.
Comment linking /2009/09/12/my-letter-to-the-canadien-copyright-consultation/
on “Remind HN: Last Chance for Copyright Consultation Canada”Submitted Why FOSS Advocates Are So Loud as a story · 1 points
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