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Clemens' Blog
Personal blog · clemenswinter.comprogrammingdataai
Clemens' Blog is a personal blog at clemenswinter.com about programming, data and ai. Since 2018, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 15 times, most often “How to Analyze Billions of Records per Second on a Single Desktop PC”. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Clemens' posts on his reinforcement learning project for real-time strategy games, including lessons and project history, and on benchmark analysis. One commenter calls the RL posts superb.
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?
- /2021/03/24/conjuring-a-codecraft-mind/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-03-24
- How to Analyze Billions of Records per Second on a Single Desktop PC2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-07-09
What Hacker News says?
For discussion... Question: Are these license restrictions on right to disclose benchmarks enforceable? Question: If they are enforceable, do licensors ever try to enforce them? If not, why? A little background here: https://danluu.com/anon-benchmark/ For example, this has been posted to HN at least twice recently: https://clemenswinter.com/2018/07/09/how-to-analyze-billions... Question: Was the author subject to an…
Comment linking /2018/07/09/how-to-analyze-billions-of-records-per-second-on-a-single-desktop-pc/
on “Intel Publishes Microcode Patches, No Benchmarking or Comparison Allowed”Submitted How to Analyze Billions of Records per Second on a Single Desktop PC as a story · 317 points
HN discussionIn case anyone misses the links, this is twinned with two other superb posts - one about general lessons the author learned over the course of the project https://clemenswinter.com/2021/03/24/my-reinforcement-learni... and one history of the project https://clemenswinter.com/2021/03/24/conjuring-a-codecraft-m...
Comment linking /2021/03/24/conjuring-a-codecraft-mind/
on “Mastering Real-Time Strategy Games with Deep RL: Mere Mortal Edition”Submitted The simple beauty of XOR floating point compression as a story · 282 points
HN discussionWell if there was ever an appropriate time to plug my dark fantasy machine learning poem this is it: https://clemenswinter.com/2021/03/24/conjuring-a-codecraft-m...
Comment linking /2021/03/24/conjuring-a-codecraft-mind/
on “On getting poetry”Submitted How to Read 100s of Millions of Records per Second from a Single Disk as a story · 130 points
HN discussionThis is especially true when it comes to reinforcement learning: what people should take away from the bloodstained guides written by past RL programmers, it is one thing at a time : https://andyljones.com/posts/rl-debugging.html https://clemenswinter.com/2021/03/24/my-reinforcement-learni... https://blog.nelhage.com/post/systems-that-defy-understandin... Never make multiple changes. Test every case where you have a…
Comment linking /2021/03/24/my-reinforcement-learning-learnings/
on “Trackmania Nightmares”Submitted Mastering Real-Time Strategy Games with Deep RL: Mere Mortal Edition as a story · 129 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building the Ultimate Deep Learning Workstation as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Machine Learning and the Future of Video Games as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Read 100s of Millions of Records per Second from a Single Disk (2018) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Analyze Billions of Records per Second on a Single Desktop PC as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Entity-Based Reinforcement Learning as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Machine Learning and the Future of Video Games as a story · 1 points
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