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Computer vision for dummies

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Computer vision for dummies is a personal blog at visiondummy.com about ai and data. Since 2014, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times, most often “The Curse of Dimensionality in Classification”. The last post was in 2017, but the archive is still widely read.

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3mentions?
3HN people?
2014–2017first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2017

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

A computer vision and machine learning blog. The one comment links its curse of dimensionality post as previously discussed on HN, alongside a Wikipedia link.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

This blog contains articles, discussions and source code samples related to computer vision, machine learning, artificial intelligence, pattern recognition and more.

Most-linked posts?

  1. The Curse of Dimensionality in Classification
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-05-13

What Hacker News says?

  1. The 'curse of dimensionality' should be required reading https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curse_of_dimensionality for anyone getting into genetic algorithms or deep learning. Also previously on HN http://www.visiondummy.com/2014/04/curse-dimensionality-affe...

    Comment linking /2014/04/curse-dimensionality-affect-classification/

    on “Genetic Algorithms for Training Deep Neural Networks for Reinforcement Learning”
  2. Submitted The Curse of Dimensionality in Classification as a story · 92 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted A geometric interpretation of the covariance matrix as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion

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